English Dictionary

cluster

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈklʌstə/

名詞

婉語 俗語

A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other. / A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.

日本語の意味

近くに集まったいくつかの個別の物の集まり / 多数の個体が一か所に集まった状態、集団、群れ / まとまり、クラスター

A cluster of lanterns floated above the festival, casting a warm glow over the crowd.

一群の提灯が祭りの上を浮かび、群衆に暖かい光を投げかけた。

意味（1）

A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.

a cluster of islands

意味（2）

A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.

As Bees […] / Poure forth their populous youth about the Hive / In clusters. c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies… (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene vi]: We loved him; but, like beasts / And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, / Who did hoot him out o' the city.

意味（3）

(astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.

The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.

意味（4）

(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.

examples of clusters would include in accordance with, the results of and so far

意味（5）

(music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.

意味（6）

(phonetics) A group of consonants.

The word scrub begins with a cluster of three consonants.

意味（7）

(computing) A group of computers that work together.

意味（8）

(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).

意味（9）

(statistics, cluster analysis) A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.

意味（10）

(military) A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.

意味（11）

(army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.

意味（12）

(slang, euphemistic) A clusterfuck.

意味（13）

(chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.

clusters （ plural ）