clustering

plural clusterings

1. A grouping of a number of similar things.
2. demographicsThe grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
3. computingThe undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
4. communicationsA 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.

1. not comparableForming a cluster.

   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?

   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]

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cluster