n.
- a group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together.
▸a natural subgroup of a population, used for statistical sampling or analysis.
- Chemistry a group of atoms of the same element, typically a metal, bonded closely together in a molecule.
v.
form a cluster.
▸Statistics (of data points) have similar numerical values.
Derivative
Etymology
OE clyster; prob. rel. to clot.