A geographical concentration of firms or industries that gain performance advantages through co-location
A grouping together of firms and institutions which can have vertical and horizontal linkages. The geographical concentration of clusters is not as important as it is with industrial districts, but clusters are more concentrated than networks. Their emphasis is on the development of cooperation among firms, with the objective of achieving synergy
Natural groupings of objects created by cluster analysis. In a cluster, objects are mutually closer to each other than to objects in other clusters.
Either Open or Globular star clusters. Defined by a group of stars located in a relatively small area of space such that each is affected by the others gravitational pull. Stars in Open Clusters are fairly far apart while stars in a globular cluster are densely packed often containing a nucleus.
No longer used. Groupings of Schools for administrative purposes.
A geographically proximate group of companies and associated institutions in a particular field, linked by commonalities and complementaries.
values grouped closely together in a set of data
a small group of things or people It was hoped that the science park would attract a cluster of important IT companies cluster (v)
Clusters are groups of sectors where folders and files are stored on the hard drive.
The smallest unit of disk space that can be allocated to a file, clusters are contiguous blocks of sectors on a disk. The cluster size is determined by the operating system.
A gathering of several sectors to make its basic unit of storage for disk files.
Groups of notes that are the interval of a second apart from one another.
Statistical grouping of consumers with similar lifestyle profiles, based on demographic and socio-economic indicators.
Groups of companies and organisations in related industries that have economic links, because they buy and sell from each other, or because they use the same skills and infrastructure in a local area.
Distinct geographical groupings of companies (that could include dedicated biotechnology firms, specialist suppliers, specialist law firms, academic ventures, etc) in locations, where there is good access to leading universities and other research institutions
A group of sectors. The number of sectors in a cluster depends on the OS and filesystem you are using.
Groups of transactions, usually consecutive, which are selected and examined.
A group of businesses or organisations who, owing to the goods they produce and/or services they provided have common customers, technology or use similar specialist skills. They group together in order to enhance their overall competitive advantage of individual companies.
are defined by the file system (e.g. FAT or NTFS) when the media is formatted. Clusters within a volume/partition are equal in size and consist of one or more contiguous sectors on the media (e.g. 16 sectors equaling 8192 bytes). A cluster is the smallest unit of data the operating system manipulates, a file made up of a single byte will be allocated a whole cluster to store the single byte.
the natural groupings of pixels when plotted in spectral space.
An industry cluster is a grouping of related industries and institutions in an area or region. The industries are inter-linked and connected in many different ways. Some industries in the cluster will be suppliers to others; some will be buyers from others; some will share labor or resources. The important thing about a cluster is that the industries within the cluster are economically linked, they both collaborate and compete and are, to some degree, dependant upon each other; and ideally, they take advantage of synergies.