CLUSTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clustering mean? 

• CLUSTERING (noun)
  The noun CLUSTERING has 1 sense:

1. a grouping of a number of similar things

  Familiarity information: CLUSTERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLUSTERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grouping of a number of similar things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

bunch; clump; cluster; clustering

Context example:

a cluster of admirers

Hypernyms ("clustering" is a kind of...):

agglomeration (a jumbled collection or mass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clustering"):

knot (a tight cluster of people or things)

swad (a bunch)

tuft; tussock (a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass)

Instance hyponyms:

Northern Cross (a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus)

Omega Centauri (a global cluster in the constellation Centaurus)

Pleiades (a star cluster in the constellation Taurus)

Derivation:

cluster (gather or cause to gather into a cluster)

cluster (come together as in a cluster or flock)

 Context examples 

Actin reorganization assists integrin clustering, allowing more ECM binding that increase FAK phosphorylation and other signal transduction events.

(Extracellular Matrix Binding Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An individual component of a clustering.

(Cluster Node, NCI Thesaurus)

CGS system is a clustering of metric units based on the centimeter, the gram, and the second.

(CGS System, NCI Thesaurus)

Assembled into a soluble hexameric structure mimicking the ligand clustering of endogenous active FasL, Fas receptor agonist APO010 activates the Fas receptor, resulting in caspase-dependent apoptosis in susceptible tumor cell populations.

(Fas Receptor Agonist APO010, NCI Thesaurus)

Clustering of the GABA-A receptor chloride channel alters receptor pharmacology on the cell surface and reduced clustering of the GABA receptor is associated with anxiety.

(GABA Receptor Life Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Ten minutes may have passed, and then I heard the clatter of many steps, and a knot of men came clustering through the door.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Clustering ephrins together activated Rap1b, a ras gene family member that may regulate integrins.

(Platelet Aggregation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A clustering method that determines the mean distance between all possible inter- or intra-cluster pairs.

(Average Linkage Cluster Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

A clustering method in which the distance between two clusters is determined by the greatest distance between any two objects in the different clusters (furthest neighbors).

(Complete Linkage Cluster Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

Then, they precisely measured the shapes of 26 million galaxies to directly map patterns of dark matter over billions of light years, using gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering.

(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)