"cluster variable" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1902, Solon Irving Bailey, A Discussion of Variable Stars in the Cluster [omega] Centauri:",
          "text": "This period, which is exceptionally long for a cluster variable, satisfies the observations fairly well except in a few cases.",
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        {
          "ref": "1913, Solon Irving Bailey, Variable Stars in the Cluster Messier 3, page 160:",
          "text": "It is a good example of a cluster variable having a large range of variations, a short period, and extremely rapid increase and decrease in light.",
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        {
          "ref": "1950, Leaflet:",
          "text": "Nearly all of the variable stars found in the other globular clusters had the same characteristics as those found in Omega Centauri. It was five years before a cluster variable was found outside of a globular cluster.",
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          "ref": "1949, Popular Astronomy:",
          "text": "There are some thirty classical Cepheids, and a few irregular variables, in the globular clusters among the stars brighter than the typical cluster variable.",
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        "an RR Lyrae variable; a type of variable star commonly (but not exclusively) found in globular clusters"
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        "(astronomy) an RR Lyrae variable; a type of variable star commonly (but not exclusively) found in globular clusters"
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          "ref": "2011, Sabine Landau, Morven Leese, Daniel Stahl, Cluster Analysis:",
          "text": "The first model includes the potential cluster variable conditioned on clustering variables already selected, while in the second model the variable is not included.",
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        "A variable whose values are used to classify data points into clusters; a variable that identifies one of the defining properties of clusters."
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        "(cluster analysis) A variable whose values are used to classify data points into clusters; a variable that identifies one of the defining properties of clusters."
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          "ref": "1950, Leaflet:",
          "text": "Nearly all of the variable stars found in the other globular clusters had the same characteristics as those found in Omega Centauri. It was five years before a cluster variable was found outside of a globular cluster.",
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          "text": "There are some thirty classical Cepheids, and a few irregular variables, in the globular clusters among the stars brighter than the typical cluster variable.",
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        "(astronomy) an RR Lyrae variable; a type of variable star commonly (but not exclusively) found in globular clusters"
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        "A variable whose values are used to classify data points into clusters; a variable that identifies one of the defining properties of clusters."
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        "(cluster analysis) A variable whose values are used to classify data points into clusters; a variable that identifies one of the defining properties of clusters."
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