n. | 1. | A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. | |||
2. | A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; | ||||
3. | A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. | ||||
v. i. | 1. | To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. | |||
v. t. | 1. | To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
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Verb | 1. | cluster - come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
2. | cluster - gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"; "The students bunched up at the registration desk" |
(file system) | cluster - An elementary unit of allocation of a disk made
up of one or more physical blocks. A file is made up of a whole number of possibly non-contiguous clusters. The cluster size is a tradeoff between space efficiency (the bigger is the cluster, the bigger is on the average the wasted space at the end of each file) and the length of the FAT. |