Clump [noun]

Fires can also destroy the natural clumps in soil, increasing their erodibility.

This finding suggests that these clumps of dark matter, in which individual galaxies are embedded, are denser than expected.

These observations indicate there are more high-density dark matter clumps in real galaxy clusters than in simulated ones, Meneghetti says.

In that set, the team identified 13 cases of severe gravitational lensing by dark matter clumps around individual galaxies.

As in the n-tuple method, in a CNN the pixels forming an image are analyzed in spatially adjacent clumps, but succeeding stages provide deeper analysis.

The potato-shaped moss clumps seemed to move across the ice.

Chumru quickly picked out the house of a zemindar, or land-owner, which stood in its own walled enclosure behind a clump of trees.

What was equally important, a thick clump of cottonwood and willow furnished tolerably secure concealment.

The broad veranda was shaded by a clump of tall banana-trees, swaying to and fro in the gentle breeze.

It was nearly six weeks after the day that she had watched him as far as the clump of willows that he came again.