Cluster
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To form into a cluster.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other. A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other. A chord of three or more notes. A group of consonants. A group of computers that work together. A significant subset within a population. Set of bombs or mines. A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
Example sentence: If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
Clustering
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To form a cluster or group.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The action of the verb to cluster.A grouping of a number of similar things.The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.The undesirable, contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.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.