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Clustered   /klˈəstərd/   Listen
verb
Cluster  v. t.  To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. "Not less the bee would range her cells,... The foxglove cluster dappled bells." "Or from the forest falls the clustered snow."
Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.


Cluster  v. i.  (past & past part. clustered; pres. part. clustering)  To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. "His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's." "The princes of the country clustering together."


adjective
clustered  adj.  
1.
Growing close together but not in dense mats; of plants.
2.
Occurring close together in bunches or clusters.
Synonyms: bunched, bunchy.
3.
Clustered together but not coherent.
Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, aggregate.





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"Clustered" Quotes from Famous Books



... of time, resolve itself into flocculi of precipitated denser matter, floating in the rarer medium from which they were precipitated, let us inquire what are the mechanical results to be inferred. Of clustered bodies in empty space, each will move along a line which is the resultant of the tractive forces exercised by all the rest, modified from moment to moment by the acquired motion; and the aggregation of such clustered ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer
... structure deep below the surface of a far-distant world a group of technicians clustered together in front of one section of a two-miles long control board. They were staring at a light that had just appeared where no light ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... and slid upward on the sand, and I left the men on guard, and taking the woman's hand led her toward the lights. A rabble of dogs trooped upon us and gave tongue, and black shapes, arrow-laden, clustered out ...
— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith
... spoken when the encircling cloud suddenly parts and melts into clear air. Aeneas stood discovered in sheen of brilliant light, like a god in face and shoulders; for his mother's self had shed on her son the grace of clustered locks, the radiant light of youth, and the lustre of joyous eyes; as when ivory takes beauty under the artist's hand, or when silver or Parian stone is inlaid in gold. [594-625]Then breaking in on all with unexpected speech he thus addresses ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil • Virgil
... assemblies at which they elected their local officers, approved their accounts, arranged for the support of the church, the school, and local improvements. In most of France and throughout much of Europe the farm homes are still clustered in villages, from which the farm lands radiate. There the village is primarily a place of residence, and with the lands belonging to ...
— The Farmer and His Community • Dwight Sanderson


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