Crowd+or+swarm

  • 1crowd — crowd1 crowder, n. /krowd/, n. 1. a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people. 2. any large number of persons. 3. any group or set of persons with something in common: The restaurant attracts a theater… …

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  • 2crowd — I [[t]kraʊd[/t]] n. 1) a large number of persons gathered together; throng 2) any group of persons having something in common: the theater crowd[/ex] 3) a group of spectators; audience: the opening night crowd[/ex] 4) the common people; the… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 3swarm — v. 1)(d; intr.) ( to crowd ) to swarm around (the autograph seekers swarmed around the actor) 2) (d; intr.) ( to throng ) to swarm into (to swarm into an auditorium) 3) (d; intr.) ( to throng ) to swarm over, through (to swarm through the… …

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  • 4Crowd simulation — is the process of simulating the movement of a large number of objects or characters, now often appearing in 3D computer graphics for film. While simulating these crowds, observed human behavior interaction is taken into account, to replicate the …

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  • 5Swarm intelligence — (SI) is artificial intelligence based on the collective behavior of decentralized, self organized systems. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems [ Beni, G., Wang, J. Swarm… …

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  • 6swarm — swarm1 [swôrm] n. [ME < OE swearm, akin to Ger schwarm, prob. < IE base * swer , to buzz > L susurrare, to hiss, whisper, sorex, Gr hyrax, shrew] 1. a large number of bees, led by a queen, leaving one hive for another to start a new… …

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  • 7swarm — [n] large, moving group army, bevy, blowout, concourse, covey, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, jam, mass, mob, multitude, myriad, pack, press, push, school, shoal, throng, troop, turnout; concepts 397,417,432 swarm [v] move forward …

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  • 8crowd — [n1] large assembly army, array, blowout, bunch, cattle, circle, clique, cloud, cluster, company, concourse, confluence, conflux, congeries, congregation, coterie, crew, crush, deluge, drove, faction, flock, flood, gaggle, great unwashed*, group …

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  • 9Swarm — Swarm, n. [OE. swarm, AS. swearm; akin to D. zwerm, G. schwarm, OHG. swaram, Icel. svarmr a tumult, Sw. sv[ a]rm a swarm, Dan. sv[ae]rm, and G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz, Skr. svar to sound, and perhaps to E. swear. [root]177. Cf. {Swerve},… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 10crowd — crowd1 [kroud] vi. [ME crouden < OE crudan, to press, drive, akin to MHG kroten, to oppress < IE base * greut , to compel, press > CURD, Ir gruth, curdled milk] 1. to press, push, or squeeze 2. to push one s way (forward, into, through,… …

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