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Class vs Cluster - What's the difference?

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In military terms the difference between class and cluster

is that class is a group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft while cluster is set of bombs or mines.

In intransitive terms the difference between class and cluster

is that class is to be grouped or classed while cluster is to form a cluster or group.

As nouns the difference between class and cluster

is that class is a group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes while cluster is a group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.

As verbs the difference between class and cluster

is that class is to assign to a class; to classify while cluster is to form a cluster or group.

As an adjective class

is great; fabulous.

class

English

(wikipedia class)

Noun

  • (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle , passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.}}
  • (countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
  • (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
  • (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
  • (countable, and, uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
  • A series of classes covering a single subject.
  • (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
  • (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
  • (biology, taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
  • Best of its kind.
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  • (mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
  • (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
  • (programming, object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
  • One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader .

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * business class * character class * class action * class clown * class diagram * class reunion * class struggle * economy class * equivalence class * first class * form class * middle class * noun class * pitch class * professional class * school class * second class * social class * spectral class * super class * third class * touch of class * upper class * working class * abstract class * anonymous/local class * base class * class diagram * convenience class * factory class * final class * inner class * outer class * static class * subclass * wrapper class

    Verb

  • To assign to a class; to classify.
  • * , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
  • To be grouped or classed.
    • — Tatham.
  • To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

    • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * outclass * subclass

    Adjective

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  • (Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous

    • Related terms

    * class act * classify * class picture * classless * classroom * class up * class war * classy * coach class * steerage class

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    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    cluster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
    • a cluster of islands
  • * Spenser
    • Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, / Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , chapter=7, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters , from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 29, author=Keith Jackson, work=Daily Record
    • , title= SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , passage=Charlie Mulgrew’s delicious deadball delivery was attacked by a cluster of green and white shirts at McGregor’s back post but Ledley got up higher and with more purpose than anyone else to thump a header home from five yards.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
  • * Milton
    • As bees / Pour forth their populous youth about the hive / In clusters .
  • * Shakespeare
    • We loved him; but, like beasts / And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters , / Who did hoot him out o' the city.
  • (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
  • (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
  • (phonetics) A group of consonants.
  • (computing) A group of computers that work together.
  • (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
  • (statistics) A significant subset within a population.
  • (military) Set of bombs or mines.
  • (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
  • An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.

    • Derived terms

    * cluster analysis * clustering * cluster bomb * globular cluster * open cluster * star cluster

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form a cluster or group.
    • The children clustered around the puppy.
  • * Tennyson
    • His sunny hair / Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
  • * Foxe
    • the princes of the country clustering together

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