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Cluster vs Bundle - What's the difference?

cluster | bundle |

In lang=en terms the difference between cluster and bundle

is that cluster is a small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before while bundle is to dogpile.

In computing terms the difference between cluster and bundle

is that cluster is a logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block) while bundle is to sell hardware and software as a single product.

In intransitive terms the difference between cluster and bundle

is that cluster is to form a cluster or group while bundle is to hurry.

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

    Anagrams

    * * English collective nouns ----

    bundle

    English

    (wikipedia bundle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
    • a bundle''' of straw or of paper; a '''bundle of old clothes
  • * Goldsmith
    • The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle , no strength could bend.
  • A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
  • (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
  • (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
    • The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle .
  • (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
  • A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).

    • Derived terms

    * bundle buggy * bundle of energy * bundle of His * bundle of joy * bundle of laughs * bundle of nerves

    Descendants

    *

    Coordinate terms

    * (quantity of paper) bale, quire, ream

    See also

    *

    Verb

  • To tie or wrap together.
  • To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
  • * T. Hook
    • They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
  • To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
  • To dress someone warmly.
  • To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
  • (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
  • To hurry.
  • (slang) To dogpile
  • To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.}}
  • * 1851 ,
    • Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
  • * 1859 , Terence, Comedies of Terence
    • Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
  • (dated) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
  • * Washington Irving
    • Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.

    Derived terms

    * bundle off * bundler * unbundle