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 Groups from wikipedia

- or other objects Group (database) Group (online social networking) Usenet newsgroup Google Groups Yahoo! Groups Facebook groups Group (stratigraphy), in...
- peoples worldwide). Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups or tribes, which over time may become separate ethnic groups themselves due to endogamy...
- found that people can form self-preferencing in-groups within a matter of minutes and that such groups can form even on the basis of completely arbitrary...
- touring car racing and rallying. In contrast to the short-lived Group B and Group C, the Group A referred to production-derived vehicles limited in terms of...
- Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes. Not all serranids are...
- groups, where the elements are separated—this makes Lie groups differentiable manifolds. Lie groups are named after Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie, who...
- Space groups are also studied in dimensions other than 3 where they are sometimes called Bieberbach groups, and are discrete cocompact groups of isometries...
- which they are written. That is, these are the groups that obey the axiom of commutativity. Abelian groups generalize the arithmetic of addition of integers...
- abelian group is a direct product of cyclic groups. Every cyclic group of prime order is a simple group which cannot be broken down into smaller groups. In...
- original group and N is the normal subgroup. (This is pronounced "G mod N", where "mod" is short for modulo.) Much of the importance of quotient groups is derived...
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