clustered

UK/ˈklʌstəd/US/ˈklʌstɚd/

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Clustered means gathered closely in a group. Clustered together, clustered around the door, clustered houses.

In statistics a clustered pattern is one of the three basic distributions — clustered, regular and random — and telling them apart is how disease outbreaks and mineral deposits are both found. Things clustered in space usually share a cause.

Definitions of clustered

1adjectiveclusteredGathered closely in a group.B2+
“The children stood clustered around the teacher to see the baby rabbit.”

clustered is a quality of arrangement.

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clustered in the wild

Some bar graphs present bars clustered or stacked in groups of more than one, showing the values of more than one measured variable.
Bar chart
The Gothic evolution of the idea is frequently called a clustered column or cluster column.
Compound pier
A nucleated village, or clustered settlement, is one of the main types of settlement pattern.
Nucleated village
A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers.
Clustered file system
There are several approaches to clustering, most of which do not employ a clustered file system (only direct attached storage for each node).
Clustered file system

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