a group of similar things growing closely together 一丛,一簇,一束,一串 clusters of creamy-white flowers. 一丛丛米色鲜花。 ■a group of people or similar things positioned or occurring close together (人、物集中出现的)一群,一组 a cluster of antique shops. 古董店群。 ■(Astronomy)a group of stars or galaxies forming a relatively close association (天文)星团;星系团 ■(Linguistics)(亦作 consonant cluster)a group of consonants pronounced in immediate succession, as str in strong (语言学)辅音群,辅音连缀(一组连续发音的辅音,如strong中的str) ■a natural subgroup of a population, used for statistical sampling or analysis 抽样人群 ■(Chemistry)a group of atoms of the same element, typically a metal, bonded closely together in a molecule (化)基
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[no obj.]be or come into a cluster or close group; congregate 群集,丛生;聚集 the children clustered round her skirts. 孩子们围聚在她裙边。 ■(Statistics)(of data points) have similar numerical values (统计)(数据点)具近似数值 students tended to have marks clustering around 70 per cent. 学生们的分数都在70分左右。