clustering

/K L AH1 S T ER0 IH0 NG/
verb
  1. 1

    To form a cluster or group.

    โ€œThe children clustered around the puppy.โ€

  2. 2

    To collect into clusters.

  3. 3

    To cover with clusters.

noun
  1. 1

    The action of the verb to cluster.

  2. 2

    A grouping of a number of similar things.

  3. 3

    (demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.

  4. 4

    The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.

  5. 5

    (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.

adjective
  1. 1

    Forming a cluster.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cluster, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clustering