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  • 1swarm — I. n. Multitude (especially of winged insects), crowd, throng, concourse, mass, press, flock, shoal, host. II. v. n. 1. Crowd, throng, gather in a swarm. 2. Be crowded, be thronged, be filled. 3. Abound, be abundant. 4. Breed multitudes …

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  • 2swarm — [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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  • 3swarm — 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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  • 4gather — [v1] come or bring together accumulate, aggregate, amass, assemble, associate, bunch up, capture, choose, close with, cluster, collect, concentrate, congregate, convene, converge, corral, crowd, cull, draw, draw in, flock, forgather, gang up,… …

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  • 5Swarm Development Group — The Swarm Development Group an American non profit organization to advance the development of complex adaptive system oriented agent based modeling (ABM) tools initiated at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. It was formed… …

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  • 6swarm — Synonyms and related words: a mass of, a world of, abound, abound with, army, assemble, beset, bevy, bristle with, bunch, bunch up, burst with, charm, clot, cloud, cluster, clutter, collect, come together, congregate, converge, copulate, couple,… …

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  • 7gather — Synonyms and related words: accouple, accumulate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, ally, amass, approach, articulate, assemble, associate, assume, await, band, batch, be afraid, be imminent, be in store, believe, blast,… …

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  • 8gather — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. infer, conclude; congregate, group, amass; collect, harvest, cull, pick, glean; cluster, huddle, herd; pleat; fester, suppurate. See assemblage, supposition, acquisition. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To… …

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  • 9swarm — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. group, crowd, multitude, horde, colony, hive. See assemblage, sufficiency. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. throng, crowd, multitude, dense crowd, horde, pack, troop, drove, shoal, school, colony, hive, cloud …

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  • 10swarm — n 1. hive, horde, host, multitude, crowd, throng, mob; drove, herd, pack, flock, cloud, gaggle, bevy, covey, flight, school, shoal; band, company, group, body, assemblage, assembly, aggregation; congregation, gathering, concentration, huddle,… …

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