"clusterful" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001, Michael A. Caloyannides, Computer Forensics and Privacy, page 34:",
          "text": "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)].",
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          "text": "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. . . .",
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          "text": "We flew — fur-jacketed moths in the night. Clusterfuls of us on borrowed boards and in temporary clothes.",
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