bucketing
- noun
- /ˈbʌkɪtɪŋ/
- Specialized
- The teacher suggested bucketing the students by their skill levels for better group activities.
Examples
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So these are one way of bucketing a bunch of our projects.
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Now, bucketing your two groups into historical clients and new clients is where you have to go.
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REPLY: Ah, a smartass who speaks in tongues, noted for future bit bucketing.
Blog text (33) -
Conversions may be made by methods that retain the ordinal order of the input data, such as discrete step functions or bucketing of values.
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In data analysis, bucketing helps us categorize user behavior based on similar patterns.
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By bucketing the responses into themes, we can easily identify common concerns among the participants.
Synonyms
An act of putting items into groups by size or color
A way of arranging things into groups by shared features
Putting people and things together because they are similar or have the same purpose
The process of putting things into groups by shared features
A group of things joined together as one whole
Putting things, people, or ideas into groups because they are similar
A group of similar things close together
An action that puts things into groups by type
Organising documents and making a list so people can find them quickly
Dividing something into parts or groups
Putting people or things into small, simple groups that limit them
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bucketing comes from bucket, a simple 'container' for water or other things. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine putting items into different buckets, so you are sorting them into 'groups', which is exactly what bucketing means.