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ALL meanings of group

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  • noun group Put together or place in a group or groups. 1
  • noun group any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings. 1
  • noun group a number of persons or things ranged or considered together as being related in some way. 1
  • noun group Also called radical. Chemistry. two or more atoms specifically arranged, as the hydroxyl group, –OH. Compare free radical. 1
  • noun group Linguistics. (in the classification of related languages within a family) a category of a lower order than a subbranch and of a higher order than a subgroup: the Low German group of West Germanic languages. any grouping of languages, whether it is made on the basis of geography, genetic relationship, or something else. 1
  • noun group Geology. a division of stratified rocks comprising two or more formations. 1
  • noun group Military. Army. a flexible administrative and tactical unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters. Air Force. an administrative and operational unit subordinate to a wing, usually composed of two or more squadrons. 1
  • noun group Music. a section of an orchestra comprising the instruments of the same class. 1
  • noun group Art. a number of figures or objects shown in an arrangement together. 1
  • noun group Mathematics. an algebraic system that is closed under an associative operation, as multiplication or addition, and in which there is an identity element that, on operating on another element, leaves the second element unchanged, and in which each element has corresponding to it a unique element that, on operating on the first, results in the identity element. 1
  • noun group Grammar (chiefly British) . a phrase: nominal group; verbal group. 1
  • verb with object group to place or associate together in a group, as with others. 1
  • verb with object group to arrange in or form into a group or groups. 1
  • verb without object group to form a group. 1
  • verb without object group to be part of a group. 1
  • noun Definition of group in Technology A group G is a non-empty set upon which a binary operator * is defined with the following properties for all a,b,c in G: Closure: G is closed under *, a*b in G Associative: * is associative on G, (a*b)*c = a*(b*c) Identity: There is an identity element e such that a*e = e*a = a. Inverse: Every element has a unique inverse a' such that a * a' = a' * a = e. The inverse is usually written with a superscript -1. (1998-10-03) 1
  • noun group  See collective noun.   1
  • noun group collection of things 1
  • noun group a number of associated people 1
  • noun group musical band 1
  • transitive verb group classify 1
  • transitive verb group form into groups 1
  • noun group a number of people in proximity 1
  • noun group business: companies 1
  • intransitive verb group form a group 1
  • noun group (chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group. 0
  • noun group (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society. 0
  • noun group (military) An air force formation. 0
  • noun group (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata. 0
  • noun group (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals. 0
  • noun group An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter. 0
  • noun group (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. 0
  • noun group (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. 0
  • verb group (Transitive Verb) To put together to form a group. 0
  • verb group (Intransitive Verb) To come together to form a group. 0
  • countable noun group A group of people or things is a number of people or things which are together in one place at one time. 0
  • countable noun group A group is a set of people who have the same interests or aims, and who organize themselves to work or act together. 0
  • countable noun group A group is a set of people, organizations, or things which are considered together because they have something in common. 0
  • countable noun group A group is a number of separate commercial or industrial firms which all have the same owner. 0
  • countable noun group A group is a number of musicians who perform together, especially ones who play popular music. 0
  • verb group If a number of things or people are grouped together or group together, they are together in one place or within one organization or system. 0
  • noun group a number of persons or things considered as a collective unit 0
  • noun group a number of persons bound together by common social standards, interests, etc 0
  • noun group (as modifier) 0
  • noun group a small band of players or singers, esp of pop music 0
  • noun group a number of animals or plants considered as a unit because of common characteristics, habits, etc 0
  • noun group an association of companies under a single ownership and control, consisting of a holding company, subsidiary companies, and sometimes associated companies 0
  • noun group two or more figures or objects forming a design or unit in a design, in a painting or sculpture 0
  • noun group a military formation comprising complementary arms and services, usually for a purpose 0
  • noun group an air force organization of higher level than a squadron 0
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