clustering

Etymology

noun

  1. A grouping of a number of similar things.
  2. (demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
  3. (computing) The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
  4. (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.

adj

  1. Forming a cluster.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of cluster

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