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group

/ɡɹuːp/

noun

Meaning

  • A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

    "A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals."

  • A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

  • An effective divisor on a curve.

  • A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

    "Did you see the new jazz group?"

  • A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

  • A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

  • A functional group.

    "Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group."

  • A subset of a culture or of a society.

  • An air force formation.

  • A collection of formations or rock strata.

  • A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

  • An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

  • A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

  • A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.

  • A commercial organization.

Synonyms

collection,
set,
band,
ensemble

verb

Meaning

  • To put together to form a group.

    "group the dogs by hair colour"

  • To come together to form a group.

Synonyms

assemble,
begather,
foregather,
throng,
amass,
categorise,
categorize,
classify,
collect,
collect up,
gather,
gather up