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clusterful en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From cluster + -ful.

Meanings

  1. A quantity that forms a cluster.
    • Windows will never write less than one clusterful of data onto a cluster; if it only needs to write half of it, it will mark the end of where that file ends (the "end of file" mark) and fill the rest of the cluster with whatever data happens to be floating about in portions of the computer's electronic memory [a.k.a. random access memory (RAM)]. 2001, Michael A. Caloyannides, Computer Forensics and Privacy, page 34:
    • We flew — fur-jacketed moths in the night. Clusterfuls of us on borrowed boards and in temporary clothes. 2015, Annabel Hawkins, This Must be the Place, →ISBN:
    • To match it you would need a thousand such worlds; systems of them, a clusterful of information-packed globes . . . and that vast capacity was physically contained within a space smaller than a single one of those tiny rooms, inside the Mind. . . . 2008, Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel:

Forms

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clustersful Number=Plur lexicographic
clusterfuls Number=Plur lexicographic

clusterful en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From cluster + -ful.

Meanings

  1. Having phonological rules that allow consonant clusters.
    • We know from Linear B how awkward a syllabary is for a clusterful language — consonants are omitted, or otiose vowels intrude in the spelling -—— so a segmental orthography would be quite advantageous. 1992, Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima, Michael Noonan, The Linguistics of Literacy, page 97:
    • Sranan, perhaps because it was spoken on the plantations alongside Dutch, a pretty clusterful language, grew more tolerant of clusters and dropped the first epenthetic vowel. 2008, Derek Bickerton, Bastard Tongues:

Forms

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most clusterful Degree=Sup lexicographic
more clusterful Degree=Cmp lexicographic