cluster
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cluster/ˈklʌstə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together.
■ a natural subgroup of a population, used for statistical sampling or analysis.
- 2 Chemistry a group of atoms of the same element, typically a metal, bonded closely together in a molecule.
■ Statistics (of data points) have similar numerical values.
– derivatives
clustered adjective.
clustered adjective.
'cluster' also found in these Oxford entries:
blackberry
- bob
- botryoidal
- botrytis
- bract
- capitulum
- cluster bean
- cluster bomb
- cluster fly
- cluster pine
- clutter
- columbine
- corymb
- crown imperial
- cyme
- disc
- druse
- gemmule
- globular cluster
- glomerulus
- hydatidiform mole
- marquise
- note cluster
- oat
- open cluster
- panicle
- pig Latin
- Pinot
- raceme
- racemose
- raspberry
- ravel
- sorus
- spathe
- spike
- tone cluster
- truss
- tuft
- umbel
