Cluster vs Matter - What's the difference?
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A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
* Spenser
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, title= A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
(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.
To form a cluster or group.
* Tennyson
* Foxe
Substance, material.
# (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
# (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter).
# A kind of substance.
# Written material (especially in books or magazines).
# (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* Bible, (w) xviii. 22
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* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
An approximate amount or extent.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
* (William Congreve) (1670-1729)
(obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
(obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(obsolete) Pus.
To be important.
:The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.
:Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter .
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It mattered little as Newcastle's challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Barton's continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.}}(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
*, Folio Society 1973, p.47:
*:Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof
To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
*:Each slight sore mattereth .
As nouns the difference between cluster and matter
is that cluster is cluster (group of galaxies or stars) while matter is .cluster
English
Noun
(en noun)- a cluster of islands
- Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, / Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
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
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.}}
William E. Conner
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.}}
- As bees / Pour forth their populous youth about the hive / In clusters .
- We loved him; but, like beasts / And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters , / Who did hoot him out o' the city.
Derived terms
* cluster analysis * clustering * cluster bomb * globular cluster * open cluster * star clusterVerb
(en verb)- The children clustered around the puppy.
- His sunny hair / Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
- the princes of the country clustering together
Anagrams
* * English collective nouns ----matter
English
(wikipedia matter)Noun
- if the matter should be tried by duel
- Son of God, Saviour of men! Thy name / Shall be the copious matter of my song.
- Every great matter' they shall bring unto thee, but every small ' matter they shall judge.
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
- No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before.
- Away he goes,a matter of seven miles.
- I have thoughts to tarry a small matter .
- He is the matter of virtue.
- And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife.
Synonyms
* material * stuff * substanceDerived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "matter") * a small matter - Somewhat, slightly * as a matter of fact - Actually * as a matter of law * back matter * baryonic matter * baryonic dark matter * degenerate matter * fecal matter * for that matter - In regards to * front matter * gray matter, grey matter * matterless * matter-of-fact * matter of record * mind over matter * mattery * no matter * organic matter * particulate matter * state of matter * strange matter * subject-matter * what's the matter * white matterVerb
(en verb)Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=Despite further attempts by Agbonlahor and Young, however, they could not find the goal to reward their endeavour.
It mattered little as Newcastle's challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Barton's continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.}}
