clustering
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of cluster#English|cluster
clustering (plural clusterings)
- The action of the verb to cluster.
- A grouping of a number of similar things.
- (demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
- (computing) The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
- (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.
clustering (not comparable)
- Forming a cluster.
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2
- I prithee let me bring thee where crabs grow,
- and I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts,
- Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how
- To snare the nimble marmoset. I'll bring thee
- To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee
- Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2
- Spanish: agrupamiento
- French: regroupement
- Italian: raggruppamento
- Portuguese: agrupamento
- Spanish: grupo, agrupación
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