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  • noun Plural form of cluster.

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Examples

  • Out west means Arnold-grop-n-ator and turning in clusters is code for the neo-nazi-bushco. (no tin foil, just operation paperclip)

    Think Progress » Luskin’s Word Parsing Suggests Rove Is A Target 2005

  • Small, pale yellow to pink flowers hang in clusters from a common stem.

    Mexican mangos: fantastic flavor, big business 2004

  • Small, pale yellow to pink flowers hang in clusters from a common stem.

    Mexican mangos: fantastic flavor, big business 2004

  • After a while he found that the snow had disappeared, and that luscious fruit now hung in clusters from the trees.

    Folk Tales From Many Lands 1910

  • And we ` re told they ` re between 7, 8, and 15 what they call clusters, some farther along with the New York Police Department calls the path to terrorism than others.

    CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2007 2007

  • The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has approved a new generation of cameras that are linked wirelessly and operate in clusters, meaning that speeding drivers will be caught whichever route they take across a wide area … they read numberplates automatically and transmit data instantly to a penalty-processing centre … They are harder to vandalise than Gatso cameras because they are suspended from arms on six-metre poles.

    Blatancy Award Dungeekin 2009

  • The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has approved a new generation of cameras that are linked wirelessly and operate in clusters, meaning that speeding drivers will be caught whichever route they take across a wide area … they read numberplates automatically and transmit data instantly to a penalty-processing centre … They are harder to vandalise than Gatso cameras because they are suspended from arms on six-metre poles.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • At the newly opened Willow Stream Spa, suites are configured in clusters of five singles rooms opening to a communal space for groups to relax together.

    Asia's Top Spas Nellie S. Huang 2010

  • They hung in clusters on the white jasmine which bordered the path; and out of the blossoming maple beside the pavilion their swarming sounded as if it came from the interior of some huge bell which reverberates for a long time after its midday peal.

    A Different Stripe: 2010

  • They hung in clusters on the white jasmine which bordered the path; and out of the blossoming maple beside the pavilion their swarming sounded as if it came from the interior of some huge bell which reverberates for a long time after its midday peal.

    Commonplace 2010

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