clustering

clustering (plural clusterings)

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.

• clustering key

clustering (not comparable)

1. Forming a cluster.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     I prithee let me bring thee where crabs grow,
     and I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts,
     Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how
     To snare the nimble marmoset. I'll bring thee
     To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee
     Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?

• clustering coefficient
• clustering illusion
• declustering

clustering

1. present participle of cluster

• mind map

• lecturings