Ulster

n 1: a historic division of Ireland located in the northeastern

part of the island; six of Ulster's nine counties are in

Northern Ireland [syn: {Ulster}]

2: loose long overcoat of heavy fabric; usually belted

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)