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.

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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.

Noun

(en noun)

A bundle or cluster.

(anatomy): A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.

(botany): A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines.

(botany): A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.

A discrete section of a book issued or published separately.

* 2005 : Cynthia Joanne Brokaw & Kai-wing Chow, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China'', essay ten: ''Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf: A Genealogy of Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge , by Anne Burkus-Chasson, p371] (The [http://www.ucpress.edu/ University of California Press; ISBN 0520231260 (10), ISBN 978-0520231269 (13))

The printed book appeared in a variety of forms during the course of its history in China. These included, among others, the “whirlwind” binding (xuanfeng zhuang)'', sometimes called the “dragon scales” binding ''(longlin zhuang)'', to describe the overlapping sheets of paper within the book; the “fold” binding ''(zhezhuang)'', also known as the “folding s?tra” binding ''(jingzhe zhuang)'' or “Sanskrit” binding ''(fanjia zhuang)'', given its common use in the presentation of Buddhist texts; the “butterfly” binding ''(hudie zhuang)'', whose appellation derives from the effect of fluttering papers that accompanies the opening of the book; and the “thread” binding ''(xianzhuang) , a technical designation that refers to the silken or cotton filaments used to stitch together folded sheets of paper into fascicles . (For diagrams of these fabrications, see Fig. 30.)