Cluster vs Null - What's the difference?
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A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
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* 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
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between cluster and null
is that cluster is cluster (group of galaxies or stars) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.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 ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.