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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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mass
English
Etymology 1
In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun is derived from the verb ????? (máss?, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *ma?- (“to oil, knead”). Doublet of masa.The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæs/
- Rhymes: -æs
Noun
mass (countable and uncountable, plural masses)
- (physical) Matter, material.
- A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size
- (obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.
- (physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is measured in kilograms in the SI system of measurement.
- (pharmacology) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
- (medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body weight, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.
- (proscribed) Synonym of weight
- A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size
- A large quantity; a sum.
- Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
- The principal part; the main body.
- A large body of individuals, especially persons.
- (in the plural) The lower classes of persons.
- Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
Derived terms
Coordinate terms
(matter):
- weight
Translations
See also
- Customary units: slug, pound, ounce, long ton (1.12 short tons), short ton (commonly used)
- Metric units: gram (g), kilogram (kg), metric ton
Verb
mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)
- (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
- (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
Synonyms
- (to form into a mass): See also Thesaurus:assemble
- (to collect into a mass): See also Thesaurus:coalesce or Thesaurus:round up
- (to have a certain mass): weigh
Translations
Adjective
mass (not generally comparable, comparative masser, superlative massest)
- Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
- Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
Translations
Derived terms
- mass extinction
Etymology 2
From Middle English messe, masse, from Old English mæsse (“the mass, church festival”) and Old French messe, from Vulgar Latin *messa (“Eucharist, dismissal”), from Late Latin missa, noun use of feminine past participle of classical Latin mittere (“to send”), from ite, missa est (“go, (the assembly) is dismissed”), last words of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. Compare Dutch mis (“mass”), German Messe (“mass”), Danish messe (“mass”), Swedish mässa (“mass; expo”), Icelandic messa (“mass”). More at mission.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??s
- (US) IPA(key): /mæs/
- (UK) IPA(key): /mæs/, /m??s/
- Rhymes: -æs
Noun
mass (plural masses)
- (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
- (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
- (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
- A musical setting of parts of the mass.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- massing priests
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Translations
Further reading
- mass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- mass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- ASMS, ASMs, MSAs, SAMs, SMAs, SMSA, Sams, sams
Võro
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *maksa, from Proto-Uralic *mëksa.
Noun
mass (genitive massa, partitive massa)
- liver
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Estonian maks.
Noun
mass (genitive massu, partitive massu)
- tax, payment
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
mass From the web:
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- what massage should i get
- are we currently in a mass extinction
- are we in a sixth mass extinction
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