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Large groups of smaller gravitationally bound objects.

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  • Lawton, director of the Massachusetts BioManufacturing Center at UMass Lowell, noted that the Greater Boston area is a "supercluster" for biotechnology.
  • Mr. Ellison said the new hardware-a "supercluster" of Sparc-based servers-set a record for online transaction processing, a measure of performance for running database...
  • Page 103 things start to go down hill when talking about the 'Grendel' supercluster.
  • Can you imagine the size of a galaxy, or a galactic cluster, or a galactic supercluster ...
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