clustering vs particular

clustering

noun
  • A grouping of a number of similar things. 

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

  • 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. 

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

adj
  • Forming a cluster. 

particular

noun
  • A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point. 

  • A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.) 

adj
  • Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing. 

  • Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious. 

  • Containing a part only; limited. 

  • Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions). 

  • Holding a particular estate. 

  • Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise. 

  • Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject. 

  • Specific; discrete; concrete. 

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