CLUSTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clustered mean? 

• CLUSTERED (adjective)
  The adjective CLUSTERED has 2 senses:

1. growing close together but not in dense mats

2. clustered together but not coherent

  Familiarity information: CLUSTERED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUSTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Growing close together but not in dense mats

Similar:

gregarious ((of plants) growing in groups that are close together)

Domain category:

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Clustered together but not coherent

Synonyms:

agglomerate; agglomerated; agglomerative; clustered

Context example:

an agglomerated flower head

Similar:

collective (forming a whole or aggregate)

 Context examples 

So did even the clustered village in the valley, with its wooden bridge across the stream, where the stream tumbled over broken rocks, and roared away among the trees.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Many microcalcifications clustered together may be a sign of cancer.

(Calcification, NCI Dictionary)

The researchers used advanced microscopic techniques to spot Shisa7 tightly clustered with GABAA receptors at synapses.

(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)

However, the droplets of water also compress the particle clusters, causing them to shadow each other and make the clustered state nearly transparent.

(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)

Interruption of this signaling for several days caused the microglia to nearly disappear, leaving just a few cells clustered around the optic nerve.

(Immune cells in the retina can spontaneously regenerate, National Institutes of Health)

Because WISE found that the obscured black holes are more clustered than the others, the researchers know those hidden black holes reside in galaxies with larger dark matter halos.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

The images show both of Jupiter's poles are covered in Earth-sized swirling storms that are densely clustered and rubbing together.

(First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission, NASA)

The frightened household clustered at the top of the stairway.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Tandem arrays of moderately repetitive (5-50 repeats) short (10-60 bases) DNA sequences found dispersed throughout the genome and clustered near telomeres.

(Minisatellite Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)

The nearest of these was the hamlet of Tredannick Wollas, where the cottages of a couple of hundred inhabitants clustered round an ancient, moss-grown church.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)