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...
- one ethnic group to another. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups or tribes, which over time may become separate ethnic groups themselves due...
- 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...
- designate as terrorist. The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and former national governments...
- differences among groups rather than differences in po****tion size among groups. The above criticism is based on the idea that a group can be considered...
- space groups are classified into 219 distinct types, or 230 types if chiral copies are considered distinct. Space groups are discrete cocompact groups of...
- contemporary ethnic groups. There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be ****ociated...
- Functional groups can also be charged, e.g. in carboxylate salts (–COO−), which turns the molecule into a polyatomic ion or a complex ion. Functional groups binding...
- can all be seen as groups endowed with additional operations and axioms. Groups recur throughout mathematics, and the methods of group theory have influenced...
- Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests. The Groups service also provides a gateway...