clustering vs family

clustering

noun
  • The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion. 

  • The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table. 

  • A grouping of a number of similar things. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Forming a cluster. 

family

noun
  • A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. 

  • A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production. 

  • A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children. 

  • A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank. 

  • An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. 

  • A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set. 

  • A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family. 

  • Members of one's family collectively. 

  • Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage. 

  • Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order. 

  • A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language. 

name
  • A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption) 

adj
  • Suitable for children and adults. 

  • Homosexual. 

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