Clustering vs. Classification

Clusteringnoun

The action of the verb to cluster.

Clusteringnoun

A grouping of a number of similar things.

Clusteringnoun

(demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.

Clusteringnoun

(computing) The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.

Clusteringnoun

(writing) 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.

Clusteringadjective

Forming a cluster.

Clusteringnoun

a grouping of a number of similar things;

Classificationnoun

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.

Classificationnoun

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.

Classificationnoun

the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

Classificationnoun

a group of people or things arranged by class or category

Classificationnoun

the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Classificationnoun

restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people

Classificationnoun

the action or process of classifying something

Classificationnoun

the arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities (including at least kingdom and phylum in animals, division in plants, and class, order, family, genus, and species)

Classificationnoun

a category into which something is put