clustering

  1. Verb.  (present participle of, cluster) .
  2. Noun.  The action of the verb to cluster.
  3. Noun.  A grouping of a number of similar things.
  4. Noun.  (context, demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
  5. Noun.  (computing) The undesirable, contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table. .
  6. Noun.  (context, 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.

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