cutter

n 1: someone who cuts or carves stone [syn: {stone cutter}]

2: someone who carves the meat [syn: {carver}]

3: someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for

garments)

4: a single-masted sailing vessel

5: a tool for cutting [syn: {cutlery}, {cutting tool}]

cluster

An elementary unit of allocation of a disk made

up of one or more physical {blocks}.

A {file} is made up of a whole number of possibly

non-contiguous clusters. The cluster size is a tradeoff

between space efficiency (the bigger is the cluster, the

bigger is on the average the wasted space at the end of each

file) and the length of the {FAT}.

(1996-11-04)