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miscluster

/mɪsˈklʌstə(ɹ)/

miscluster verb: to cluster incorrectly.

Verb

miscluster (third-person singular simple present misclusters, present participle misclustering, simple past and past participle misclustered)

  1. To cluster incorrectly.
    • However, if a wing is wrongly clustered, it, in effect, has introduced a spurious wing in one cluster and its rightful cluster will be missing a wing. The effect is potentially damaging if several wings are misclustered.1992, Greg Chungmou Lee, Reconstruction of Line Drawing Graphs from Fused Range and Intensity Imagery
    • Ordinarily, I suppose, we think of death as taking place when something goes wrong with the physical body: when vessel walls collapse or cells miscluster or the immune system crashes.1997, The Nation - Volume 265, page 31

Noun

miscluster (countable and uncountable, plural misclusters)

  1. An instance of misclustering.
    • Test-areas 17 and 18 were again misclusters.1971, International Institute for Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences, Publications: Photogrammetry volume 61
    • The rate of miscluster increases slightly with the increase of number of clusters and RAI objects.2017, G. Surya Narayana, D. Vasumanthi, K. Prasanna, “A New Stratified Immune Based Approach for Clustering High Dimensional Categorical Data”, in Kapila Rohan Attele, Amit Kumar, V. Sankar, N. V....

Forms of miscluster

Verb
third-person singular presentmisclusters
present participlemisclustering
past participlemisclustered
pastmisclustered
Noun
pluralmisclusters

Origin of miscluster

From mis- + cluster.

Questions about miscluster

What does miscluster mean?
Miscluster means to cluster incorrectly.
What part of speech is miscluster?
Miscluster can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce miscluster?
Miscluster is pronounced /mɪsˈklʌstə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of miscluster?
The past tense of miscluster is misclustered.

Words near miscluster in the dictionary

  1. misclosed
  2. miscloses
  3. misclosing
  4. misclosure
  5. misclosures
  6. miscluster
  7. misclustered
  8. misclustering
  9. misclusterings
  10. misclusters
  11. miscode

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