Clusterful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Clusterful is a noun meaning A quantity that forms a cluster.
Meaning
A quantity that forms a cluster.
More Meanings
- (linguistics) Having phonological rules that allow consonant clusters.
Example Sentences
We flew — fur-jacketed moths in the night. Clusterfuls of us on borrowed boards and in temporary clothes.
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.
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.
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. . . .
Word Forms
- clusterfuls
- clustersful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clumpiness, cloudful, crop, catalogful, clutter, church-load.
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