clustering

English

Noun

clustering (plural clusterings)

1. A grouping of a number of similar things.
2. (demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
3. (computing) The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
4. (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.

Derived terms

• Brown clustering
• clustering key
• k-means clustering

 

Translations

the action of the verb to cluster

• Spanish: agrupamiento (es) m

a grouping of a number of similar things

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聚类 (zh) (jùlèi)

• French: regroupement (fr)
• Italian: raggruppamento (it)
• Portuguese: agrupamento (pt)
• Spanish: grupo (es) m, agrupación (es)

Adjective

clustering (not comparable)

1. Forming a cluster.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     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?

Derived terms

• clustering coefficient
• clustering illusion
• declustering

Verb

clustering

1. present participle and gerund of cluster

See also

• mind map

Anagrams

• lecturings