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Aggregation vs Clustering - What's the difference?

aggregation | clustering |

As nouns the difference between aggregation and clustering

is that aggregation is while clustering is the action of the verb to cluster.

As a verb clustering is

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aggregation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of collecting together (aggregating).
  • The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
  • A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
  • (networking) summarizing multiple routes into one route.
  • (epidemiology) the majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
  • clustering

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to cluster.
  • A grouping of a number of similar things.
  • (demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
  • (computing) The undesirable, contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
  • (writing) 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.
  • Derived terms

    * clustering coefficient * clustering illusion * declustering