group

noun

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

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

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

(sports) 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.

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

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

(chemistry) A functional group.

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

(military) An air force formation.

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

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

(music) 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.

(business) A commercial organization.

(geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.

verb

(transitive) To put together to form a group.

(intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Roots

gruppogroup- · Italian · cluster, knot

Synonyms for group

subgroupn ingroupn troupen cliquen gangn organizationn coterien teamn bunchn trion squadn factionn bandn cohortn passeln companyn ensemblen quartetn conglomeraten associationn sextetn

Words related to group

membersn groupingsn menfolks threesomen monohydroxyadj foursomen auxochrome consortiumn preceptorial taskforce cliqueyadj radicaladj collectiveadj hexarchyadj trainbandn isologousadj guildsman octarchyadj cacodyln

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Where does group come from?

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