clustering

About 2.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A grouping of a number of similar things.
2. noun The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
3. noun The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
4. noun 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.
5. adjective Forming a cluster.
6. verb present participle and gerund of cluster

Similar words

bunch bunch up bundle clump constellate flock aggregate aggregation aggregator agglomerative

Often followed by

of and in is algorithm around algorithms methods round