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Clustering vs Classification - What's the difference?

clustering | classification |

As nouns the difference between clustering and classification

is that clustering is the action of the verb to cluster while classification is the act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc, according to some common relations or attributes.

As a verb clustering

is .

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

    Related terms

    * mind map

    classification

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1937-1952 , author=Jorge Luis Borges , title=Other Inquisitions citation , passage=On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.}}
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
    And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of ''''''classification'''''' and ordered '''tabulation'''.
    Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
    Western reason had entered the '     age of judgement     .

    Derived terms

    * classification scheme

    Related terms

    * class * classic * classify * category * categorize * segment

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