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cluster
English
Etymology
From Middle English cluster, from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klus-, *klas- (“to clump, lump together”) + Proto-Germanic *-þr? (instrumental suffix), related to Low German Kluuster (“cluster”), dialectal Dutch klister (“cluster”), Swedish kluster (“cluster”), Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kl?st?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?kl?st?/
- Rhymes: -?st?(r)
Noun
cluster (plural clusters)
- A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- a cluster of islands
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
- Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, / Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
- A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
- (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
- (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
- examples of clusters would include "in accordance with", "the results of" and "so far"
- (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
- (phonetics) A group of consonants.
- (computing) A group of computers that work together.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
- (statistics, cluster analysis) A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
- (military) A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
- (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
- (slang, euphemistic) A clusterfuck.
- (chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
cluster (third-person singular simple present clusters, present participle clustering, simple past and past participle clustered)
- (intransitive) To form a cluster or group.
- The children clustered around the puppy.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Oenone
- His sunny hair / Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- the princes of the country […] clustering together
- 1997, Lynn Keller, Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women, University of Chicago Press, ?ISBN, chapter 6, 281:
- On the page, “Me” is irregular but—except for a prominent drawing of a two-toned hieroglyphic eye—not radically unusual: the lines are consistently left-justified; their length varies from one to a dozen syllables; they cluster in stanzalike units anywhere from one to six lines long that are separated by consistent spaces.
- (transitive) To collect into clusters.
- (transitive) To cover with clusters.
Translations
Anagrams
- culters, curlest, custrel, cutlers, relucts
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English cluster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kl?s.t?r/
- Hyphenation: clus?ter
- Rhymes: -?st?r
Noun
cluster f or m or m (plural clusters, diminutive clustertje n)
- cluster
- (astronomy) star cluster
- Synonyms: sterrencluster, sterrenhoop, sterrenzwerm
Derived terms
- sterrencluster
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English cluster.
Noun
cluster m (plural clusters)
- cluster
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English cluster.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?kl?s.te?/
Noun
cluster m (plural clusters)
- (music) cluster (chord of three or more notes)
- (computing) cluster (group of computers working concurrently)
Spanish
Noun
cluster m (plural clusters or cluster)
- Alternative spelling of clúster
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amass
English
Etymology
From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amass?re, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /??mæs/
Verb
amass (third-person singular simple present amasses, present participle amassing, simple past and past participle amassed)
- (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
- (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
- […] he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
Synonyms
- (collect into a mass): heap up, mound, pile, pile up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
- (gather a great quantity of): accumulate, amound, collect, gather, hoard; see also Thesaurus:amass
Derived terms
- amasser
- amassment
Translations
Noun
amass (plural amasses)
- (obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together.
- Synonyms: mass, heap, pile
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, London, p. 38,[1]
- […] this Pillar [the Compounded Order] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amasse of all the precedent Ornaments, making a new kinde, by stealth, and though the most richly tricked, yet the poorest in this, that he is a borrower of all his Beautie.
- 1788, Thomas Pownall, Notices and Descriptions of Antiquities of the Provincia Romana of Gaul, London: John Nichols, p. 22,[2]
- […] others are drawn, not as portraits, not strict copies of these most essential characteristic parts, but filled up afterwards from memory, and a general idea of an amass of arms, without the specific one of a trophæal amass, which is the fact of these bas-relieves.
- (obsolete) The act of amassing.
- 1591, William Garrard, The Arte of Warre, London: Roger Warde, Book 6, p. 339,[3]
- He [the general] must neuer permit the Captaines to depart from the place, where he made the Amasse and collection of the Companies, with their bands out of order or disseuered, although they should depart to some place neere adioyning, vnlesse he were forced by some occasion of great necessity and importance:
- 1591, William Garrard, The Arte of Warre, London: Roger Warde, Book 6, p. 339,[3]
Anagrams
- Assam, Massa, Samas, massa, msasa
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