clustering
/ˈklʌstɚɪŋ/ noun C1- 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.
Plural clusterings
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In fact, of the twenty rose-trees which formed the parterre, not one bore the mark of the slug, nor were there evidences anywhere of the clustering aphis which is so destructive to plants growing in a damp soil.
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