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Hovercraft = hover + craft
Union of a word and a Hydroplane = hydro- + plane
combining form Biosphere = bio- + sphere
Microclimate = micro- +
climate
Monorail = mono- + rail
Union of two combining forms Telescope = tele- + -scope
Microphone = micro- + -phone
Anglophone = Anglo- + -phone
Polymer = poly- + -mere
Union of several words with a Brown-bag
dash Air-conditioning
On-site
Cable-laid
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5.3 Syntactic and asyntactic clustering
Clusters are created when existing words are combined to
form a new syntagmatic unit. This unit has a meaning which is
independent of the meanings of its constituent parts, and, in the
discipline of terminology, this unit must designate a concept
relevant to a certain specialized subject field. Cluster terms have
two elements: a determiner and a nucleus. The nucleus of the
cluster (usually the last element) often indicates the category to
which the concept belongs, while the determiner often indicates
the criterion for subdivision of the category. For example, in the
term colour scanner, scanner is the nucleus and it indicates that
the concept being referred to is a type of scanner; colour,
meanwhile, is the determiner and it describes in what way this type
of scanner is different from other scanners, i.e., it can scan colour
data and not just black-and-white. Depending on the nature of the
nucleus (e.g. object, property, process, etc.), the determiner can
specify different types of features (e.g. purpose, location, function,
method, material, etc.). Thus we can see that clustering achieves
two objectives: it narrows the concept's intention, thereby creating

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