groups

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.

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