verb
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To form a cluster or group.
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The children clustered around the puppy.
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To collect into clusters.
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To cover with clusters.
noun
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The action of the verb to cluster.
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A grouping of a number of similar things.
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(demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
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The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
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(writing) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays.
adjective
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Forming a cluster.
Examples of clustering in a Sentence
A clustering algorithm is then used for unsupervised classification.
Where the hazel bank is steepest, Where the shadow falls the deepest, Where the clustering nuts fall free, That's the way for Billy and me.
This is an ancient and prosperous market town of picturesque old houses clustering round a fine parish church, with a high embattled tower, and a remarkable south porch with parvise.
Again, several issues involving spatial clustering of groups could be studied in future work [21] .
Certain places on a dog's body, as well as a human's, are extra sensitive due to a greater clustering of nerves in the location.
Clustering occurred in nine of ten patients with more than one seizure onset zone.
Again, several issues involving spatial clustering of groups could be studied in future work [21 ].
The core training used an extended version of 1.5 which included decision tree clustering and supplied bigram and trigram language models were used.
These berries are studded thickly over the ash-grey stems and even on the old main branches, the one fault being that, clustering mainly on the underside, they are not readily seen.
The current product line appeals to a flashier youthful customer, with an economical price point, clustering around $100 or less.
Clustering like items and in shopping order will help reduce the chance you have to retrace your steps in the grocery store and can help you reduce the amount of impulse buying.
At the conclusion of the Greek War of Independence, Athens was little more than a village of the Turkish type, the poorly built houses clustering on the northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis.
The town itself consists of a mass of one-storeyed stone houses, each surmounted by a little dome, clustering round the market-place with its mosque and minaret.
Burke's conservatism was, as such a passage as this may illustrate, the result partly of strong imaginative associations clustering round the more imposing symbols of social continuity, partly of a sort of corresponding conviction in his reason that there are certain permanent elements of human nature out of which the European order had risen and which that order satisfied, and of whose immense merits, as of its mighty strength, the revolutionary party in France were most fatally ignorant.
It is considered that the vector sequences can be better modeled by allocating the optimal allophone clustering structure to each feature.
This evaluation, which measures the quality of fuzzy clustering, assigns a real number to the outputs of the used fuzzy clustering algorithm.
In rear of Moquegua there is a group of volcanic peaks, clustering round those of Ubinas and Huaynaputina.
The church, which rises high above the buildings clustering round it, consists of transepts and four bays of the nave of Romanesque architecture and of a fine choir (1450 - I 521) in the Flamboyant Gothic style with a triforium surmounted by lofty windows.
Then comes a range of lesser hills clustering together to form the frontier between Silesia and Bohemia.
Various considerations tend to show that this apparent crowding does not imply a really greater density or clustering of the stars in space, but is due to the fact that in these directions we look through a greater depth of stars before coming to the boundary of the stellar system.
The history of Bertoldo, which, though of Italian origin, reached Rumania through a Greek translation, belongs to the same cycle of rustic wisdom and cunning, and is the last representative of an old series of legends clustering round the figures of Solomon and Ashmodai, or Solomon and Markolph.
It stands on the site of the ancient Panticapaeum, and, like most towns built by the ancient Greek colonists in this part of the world, occupies a beautiful situation, clustering round the foot and climbing up the sides of the hill (called after Mithradates) on which stood the ancient citadel or acropolis.
The villages are substantially built of stone, often picturesquely situated on the spurs and crests of the hills, the houses clustering round the dars or towers which dominate the cultivated slopes and valleys.
However, all the features of the vector sequences may not necessarily have a common allophone clustering structures.
Then, this matrix must be fed into a clustering algorithm to obtain a hierarchical classification.
The beauty of the city, clustering on the low ground and rising tier over tier on the hillside, is frequently praised by the ancients and is celebrated on its coins.
The blazing orbs, which have drawn off from the cold earth and water, are the temporary gods of the world, clustering round the earth, which, to the ancient thinker, is the central figure.