Definition of Group. Meaning of Group. Synonyms of Group

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Definition of Group

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

- A group is a number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together. Cultural group, a group whose members share the same cultural...
- In mathematics, a group is a set equipped with an operation that combines any two elements of the set to produce a third element of the set, in such a...
- psychology, an in-group is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member. By contrast, an out-group is a social group with which...
- group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups....
- functional group is a substituent or moiety in a molecule that causes the molecule's characteristic chemical reactions. The same functional group will undergo...
- manoeuvre group (OMG) was a Soviet Army organisational manoeuvre warfare concept created during the early 1950s to replace the cavalry mechanized group which...
- In the social sciences, a social group can be defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively...
- the short-lived Group B and Group C, Group A vehicles were limited in terms of power, weight, allowed technology and overall cost. Group A was aimed at...
- chemistry, a group (also known as a family) is a column of elements in the periodic table of the chemical elements. There are 18 numbered groups in the periodic...
- Warner Music Group Corp. (d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate...