Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - cluster
Cluster
cluster
n. & v. --n. 1 a close group or bunch of similar things growing together. 2 a close group or swarm of people, animals, faint stars, gems, etc. 3 a group of successive consonants or vowels. --v. 1 tr. bring into a cluster or clusters. 2 intr. be or come into a cluster or clusters. 3 intr. (foll. by round, around) gather, congregate. Phrases and idioms cluster bomb an anti-personnel bomb spraying pellets on impact. cluster pine a Mediterranean pine Pinus pinaster with clustered cones: also called PINASTER. Etymology: OE clyster: cf. CLOT
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English clyster; akin to Old English clott clot Date: before 12th century a number of similar things that occur together: as, two or more consecutive consonants or vowels in a segment of speech, a group of buildings and especially houses built close together on a sizable tract in order to preserve open spaces larger than the individual yard for common recreation, an aggregation of stars or galaxies that appear close together in the sky and are gravitationally associated, a larger than expected number of cases of disease (as leukemia) occurring in a particular locality, group of people, or period of time, ~y adjective II. verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 14th century transitive verb to collect into a ~ , to furnish with ~s, intransitive verb to grow, assemble, or occur in a ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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