Cluster vs. Class — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cluster and Class
ADVERTISEMENT
Compare with Definitions
Cluster
A group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely together; a bunch
"She held out her hand, a small tight cluster of fingers" (Anne Tyler).
Class
A set, collection, group, or configuration containing members regarded as having certain attributes or traits in common; a kind or category.
Cluster
(Linguistics) Two or more successive consonants in a word, as cl and st in the word cluster.
Class
A grade of mail
A package sent third class.
Cluster
A group of academic courses in a related area.
ADVERTISEMENT
Class
A quality of accommodation on public transport
Tourist class.
Cluster
To gather or grow into bunches.
Class
A social stratum whose members share certain economic, social, or cultural characteristics
The lower-income classes.
Cluster
To cause to grow or form into bunches.
Class
Social rank or caste, especially high rank.
Cluster
A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
A cluster of islands
A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.
A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.
Class
(Informal)Elegance of style, taste, and manner
An actor with class.
Cluster
A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
Class
A group of students who are taught together, usually at a regularly scheduled time and in the same subject.
Cluster
(astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.
Class
The period during which such a group meets
Had to stay after class.
Cluster
A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
Examples of clusters would include "in accordance with", "the results of" and "so far"
Class
The subject material taught to or studied by such a group
Found the math class challenging.
Cluster
(music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
Class
A group of students or alumni who have the same year of graduation.
Cluster
(phonetics) A group of consonants.
The word "scrub" begins with a cluster of three consonants.
Class
(Biology)A taxonomic category ranking below a phylum or division and above an order.
Cluster
(computing) A group of computers that work together.
Class
(Statistics)An interval in a frequency distribution.
Cluster
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
Class
(Linguistics)A group of words belonging to the same grammatical category that share a particular set of morphological properties, such as a set of inflections.
Cluster
A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
Class
(Mathematics)A collection of sets whose members share a specified property.
Cluster
(military) A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
Class
To arrange, group, or rate according to qualities or characteristics; assign to a class; classify.
Cluster
(army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
Class
(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
Often used to imply membership of a large class.
This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
Cluster
A clusterfuck.
Class
A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.
Cluster
(chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
Class
(uncountable) The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
Cluster
(intransitive) To form a cluster or group.
The children clustered around the puppy.
Class
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
Cluster
(transitive) To collect into clusters.
Class
A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
Cluster
(transitive) To cover with clusters.
Class
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
Cluster
A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes,Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
Class
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
Cluster
A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
Class
(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
Cluster
A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hiveIn clusters.
We loved him; but, like beastsAnd cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,Who did hoot him out o' the city.
Class
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
Cluster
To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
His sunny hairCluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
The princes of the country clustering together.
Class
Best of its kind.
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
Cluster
To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells.
Or from the forest falls the clustered snow.
Class
(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
Cluster
A grouping of a number of similar things;
A bunch of trees
A cluster of admirers
Class
(set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
The class of all sets is not a set.
Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
Cluster
Come together as in a cluster or flock;
The poets constellate in this town every summer
Class
(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
Cluster
Gather or cause to gather into a cluster;
She bunched her fingers into a fist
The students bunched up at the registration desk
Class
A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
An abstract base class
Class
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
Class
(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
Class
(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
Class
(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Class
Great; fabulous
Class
A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
Class
A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
Class
A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
Class
A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
She had lost one class energies.
Class
One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
Class
One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session.
Class
A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.
Class
To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
Class
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Class
To be grouped or classed.
The genus or family under which it classes.
Class
Exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class
Class
People having the same social or economic status;
The working class
An emerging professional class
Class
A body of students who are taught together;
Early morning classes are always sleepy
Class
Education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;
He took a course in basket weaving
Flirting is not unknown in college classes
Class
A collection of things sharing a common attribute;
There are two classes of detergents
Class
A body of students who graduate together;
The class of '97
She was in my year at Hoehandle High
Class
A league ranked by quality;
He played baseball in class D for two years
Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA
Class
Elegance in dress or behavior;
She has a lot of class
Class
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
Class
Arrange or order by classes or categories;
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
Share Your Discovery
Previous Comparison
Honest vs. Honestly
Next Comparison
Isolation vs. Insulation
