Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed into a cluster; arranged or collected in clusters; in botany, applied specially to flowers and fruits regardless of the type of inflorescence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective growing close together but not in dense mats; -- of plants.
- adjective occurring close together in bunches or clusters.
- adjective clustered together but not coherent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cluster .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective growing close together but not in dense mats
- adjective clustered together but not coherent
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Examples
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A quick aside: the term clustered index means something different in Oracle than in SQL
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There's a huge difference between shooting an accurate arrow from the target line and shooting one at an animal over broken terrain clustered with brush, trees, and boulders.
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THERE'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE between shooting an accurate arrow from the target line and shooting one at an animal over broken terrain clustered with brush, trees, and boulders.
Three Ways to Improve Your Bow Shot in Hunting Situations 2006
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And they lend themselves to being built in clustered development styles that would quickly lead to reduced driving in compact areas.
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What Slobodchikoff discovered was that the calls clustered into different groups, and each cluster had its own signature set of frequencies and tones.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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What Slobodchikoff discovered was that the calls clustered into different groups, and each cluster had its own signature set of frequencies and tones.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Here too the gibbon calls clustered in three principal groups.
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Here too the gibbon calls clustered in three principal groups.
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By contrast, so-called clustered collections of cable networks provide an enclosed environment that allows high-bandwidth, complex applications to thrive.
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Cloud Hosting (often also referred to as clustered hosting) is a step up from the shared hosting infrastructure that is commonly used today.
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