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cluster around (someone or something)

1. To gather around someone or something. The kids clustered around the clown to watch him make balloon animals. Good luck getting any food with so many people clustered around the buffet! The students all clustered around the teacher to watch the demonstration.
2. To position someone or something around someone or something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "cluster" and "around." Mom clustered the kids around the clown so that they could all see him make balloon animals. Now we need to cluster the purple flowers around the white ones. I never saw the point in clustering a pile of decorative pillows around the one pillow you're actually going to sleep on.
See also: around, cluster

cluster together

To gather or bunch together. The kids clustered together to watch the clown make balloon animals. Why are all of our nicest Christmas ornaments clustered together on one side of the tree? Good luck getting any food with so many people clustered together at the buffet!
See also: cluster, together
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cluster around someone or something

[for a group of people or things] to bunch together, surrounding someone or something. The birds clustered around the chimney top to keep warm. The kids clustered around the police officer.
See also: around, cluster

cluster someone or something around someone or something

to bunch people or things together around someone or something. She clustered the cups around the punch bowl. Karen clustered the children around the fire.
See also: around, cluster

cluster together

to bunch or group together. All of the bats clustered together on the roof of the cave. The children clustered together in small groups here and there on the playground.
See also: cluster, together
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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References in periodicals archive
Ansari, "A position-based clustering technique for Ad Hoc Intervehicle communication," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol.
Valaee, "Mobility-based clustering in VANETs using Affinity Propagation," in Proc.
However, this scheme incurs more overhead and memory consumption when compared to hard clustering approaches.
The concept of rough set theory developed by a polish scientist Pawlak [19] is a method for making the decision in case of uncertainty or vagueness in clustering. A data set is represented as an information table I = (U, A) where U represents each row of objects and 'A' represents each column of attributes.
Buttyan, "Secure and Reliable Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Critical Survey," Computer Networks, vol.
When compared with traditional single clustering algorithms, cluster ensemble approaches are able to integrate multiple clustering solutions obtained from different data sources into a unified solution and provide a more robust, stable and accurate final result.
The K-Means cluster can be affected by the initial clustering centers, and the typical K-Means cluster results (K = 11) are shown in Figure 7(a).
The error percentage criterion was used to compare clustering results of both algorithms.
In the FCM experiment in this paper given gray values of the pixel which in the repaired areas, we can calculate the Euclidean distance of it with each clustering center concluded by formula (8), the cluster which has the minimum distance is the repaired area D.
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