Definition of groups. Meaning of groups. Synonyms of groups

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Definition of groups

Group
Group Group, n. [F groupe, It. gruppo, groppo, cluster, bunch, packet, group; of G. origin: cf. G. krepf craw, crop, tumor, bunch. See Crop, n.] 1. A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles. 2. An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata. 3. (Biol.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders. 4. (Mus.) 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.
Group
Group Group, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grouped; p. pr. & vb. n. Grouping.] [Cf. F. grouper. See Group, n.] To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of. The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects. --Prior. Grouped columns (Arch.), three or more columns placed upon the same pedestal.

Meaning of group from wikipedia

- in mathematics , a group is a set of elements together with an operation that combines any two of its elements to form a third element
- a group is a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. mathematics : group (mathematics), a set together with a
- a musical ensemble also known as a music group is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music , typically known by a
- universal music group (umg) is the largest american music corporation in the world. it currently operates as a subsidiary of paris-based
- advocacy groups (also known as pressure groups, lobby groups, campaign groups, interest groups, or special interest groups) use various
- in organic chemistry , functional groups are lexicon -specific groups of atom s or bonds within molecule s that are responsible for the
- ethnicity or ethnic group is a socially defined category based on common culture or nationality ethnicity can, but does not have to,
- in mathematics and abstract algebra , group theory studies the algebraic structure s known as groups . the concept of a group is central
- in mathematics , a lie group (icon , ˈ , l , iː) is a group which is also a differentiable manifold , with the property that the group
- most early hip hop was dominated by groups where collaboration between the members was integral to the show an example would be the early