cluster

clus·ter  (klstr)

n.

1. A group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely together; a bunch: "She held out her hand, a small tight cluster of fingers" Anne Tyler.

2. Linguistics Two or more successive consonants in a word, as cl and st in the word cluster.

3. A group of academic courses in a related area.

v. clus·tered, clus·ter·ing, clus·ters

v.intr.

To gather or grow into bunches.

v.tr.

To cause to grow or form into bunches.

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[Middle English, from Old English clyster.]

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cluster

Noun

1. a number of things growing, fastened, or occurring close together

2. a number of people or things grouped together

Verb

to gather or be gathered in clusters [Old English clyster]

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Cluster a number of like things growing together; a number of similar things collected together; a rounded mass; a clot or clutter; a body of people collected together; a crowd; group. See also bunch, crowd.

Examples: cluster of apples, 1400; of bees, 1609; of blood, 1548; of churches; of churls, 1486; of curls, 1798; of crystals; of eggs, 1555; of rich parasitic fancies, 1856; of feelings, 1855; of grapes, 1486; of houses; of icebergs, 1860; of ideas, 1768; of islands, 1697; of jewels, 1712; of knots, 1486; of civil law, 1607; of memories, 1884; of nuts, 1483; of pines, 1797; of spiders; of stars, 1854; of towers, 1400; of woes, 1742.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cluster - a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" bunch, clump, clustering agglomeration - a jumbled collection or mass knot - a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest" swad - a bunch; "a thick swad of plants" tuft, tussock - a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
Verb	1.	cluster - come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" clump, constellate, flock huddle, huddle together - crowd or draw together; "let's huddle together--it's cold!" bunch, bunch together, bunch up - form into a bunch; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" foregather, forgather, gather, assemble, meet - collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
	2.	cluster - gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" bunch, bunch up, bundle, clump form - assume a form or shape; "the water formed little beads" agglomerate - form into one cluster

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cluster

noun 1. gathering, group, collection, bunch, knot, clump, assemblage

verb 2. gather, group, collect, bunch, assemble, flock, huddle

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1. Fireworks signal in which a group of stars burns at the same time.
2. Group of bombs released together. A cluster usually consists of fragmentation or incendiary bombs.
3. Two or more parachutes for dropping light or heavy loads.
4. In land mine warfare, a component of a pattern-laid minefield. It may be antitank, antipersonnel or mixed. It consists of one to five mines and no more than one antitank mine.
5. Two or more engines coupled together so as to function as one power unit.
6. In naval mine warfare, a number of mines laid in close proximity to each other as a pattern or coherent unit. They may be of mixed types.
7. In minehunting, designates a group of mine-like contacts.

Translations

cluster [ˈklʌstəʳ] n → grupo;

(BOT) → racimo

vi → agruparse, apiñarse

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cluster [ˈklʌstəʳ] n → (petit) groupe;

(of flowers) → grappe f

vi → se rassembler

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cluster [ˈklʌstəʳ] n → Gruppe f

vi (people) → sich scharen;

(houses) → sich drängen

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cluster [ˈklʌstəʳ] n → gruppo

vi → raggrupparsi