clutter
Other forms: cluttered; cluttering; clutters
The word clutter can mean a messy jumble of objects. The disorganized clutter of shoes, hats, shirts, belts, jackets, and pants makes it impossible to find a thing in your closet!
Clutter can describe all those disorderly random things in your purse, but it can also refer to the random echoes that show up on a radar screen. The echos mix with other desired signals and can make it hard to track everything. As a verb, clutter is what you do when you fill up a space with a crazy mix of objects. You may clutter up the attic when you finally clean out that closet!
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a confused multitude of thingstypes:rummagea jumble of things to be given awaytype of:
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unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screentype of:radar echoan electronic signal that has been reflected back to the radar antenna; contains information about the location and distance of the reflecting object
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fill a space in a disorderly waysynonyms: clutter up
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