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The term cluster refers to the grouping together of elements within a domain - usually spatial. See:
Physics
- In astrophysics and astrometry: star cluster, galaxy cluster
- In molecular physics and solid state physics: A collaboration of (mostly equal) atoms, halfway between molecules and crystals; see cluster (physics)
- In music: tone cluster
- In statistics: cluster sampling or cluster analysis
- metal cluster
- In economics:
- In space sciences:
- An ESA mission to study the magnetosphere: Cluster mission
- A special class of satellites: cluster satellites
Biology
Other
- Cluster bomb
- Cluster (band)
- Cluster (chemistry)
- In computers:
- computer cluster
- cluster (programming), a programming language used around 1990 with amiga computers
- file system
- Cluster, is a group of disk sectors used in File Allocation Tables (FAT) [1] (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/c/cluster.html) [2] (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partCluster-c.html).
- A lost cluster refers to a cluster marked by an operating system as being used even though it is not assigned to any file.
- In writing systems: Consonant cluster