Clustering

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  • verb. Present participle of cluster.
  • noun. The action of the verb to cluster.
  • noun. A grouping of a number of similar things.
  • noun. The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
  • noun. The undesirable, contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
  • noun. 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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  • noun. a grouping of a number of similar things
  • Word Usage
    "Using the term "clustering," he pointed to hot spots in California, Texas, and New Mexico -- as well as to the urban centers of Detroit, Miami, Washington, D.C. and New York City -- that shared similar patterns of toxic release."
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    verb-stem
    cluster