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miscluster en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /mɪsˈklʌstə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From mis- + cluster.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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. Rao, T. Hitendra Sarma, editors, Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communications and Information Technologies, page 149:
    • The thesis is split up into four phases of categorical data where the first phase evaluates the miscluster rate over the clustering on categorical data which results in significant improvement over the performance than the earlier reported algorithms. 2019, Dr. G. Surya Narayana, Unsupervised Clustering Categorical Data Using Evolutionary Optimization Techniques:

Forms

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misclusters Number=Plur lexicographic

miscluster en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /mɪsˈklʌstə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From mis- + cluster.

Meanings

  1. To cluster incorrectly.
    • Indeed, the result of the fourth test case shows that, for instances when REGROUPS may miscluster a few isolated points, incorporating information from a relatively large number of ATs in the polynomial surface protects against 'run-away' misclustering. 2012, Gregory O'Grady, An Improved Foundation for the Investigation and Treatment of Gastric Dysrhythmia, page 103:
    • 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:
    • 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:

Forms

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misclustered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misclustered Tense=Past lexicographic
misclustering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misclusters Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic