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Crowding vs Clustering - What's the difference?

crowding | clustering |

As verbs the difference between crowding and clustering

is that crowding is while clustering is .

As nouns the difference between crowding and clustering

is that crowding is the act by which somebody is crowded while clustering is the action of the verb to cluster.

crowding

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is crowded.
  • * James T. Boulton
  • To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel

    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