group (gr p)n. 1. An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation: a group of dinner guests; a group of buildings near the road. 2. Two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture. 3. A number of individuals or things considered together because of similarities: a small group of supporters across the country. 4. Linguistics A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family. 5. a. A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters. b. A unit of two or more squadrons in the U.S. Air Force, smaller than a wing. 6. A class or collection of related objects or entities, as: a. Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit. b. A column in the periodic table of the elements. c. A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era. 7. Mathematics A set with a binary associative operation such that the operation admits an identity element and each element of the set has an inverse element for the operation. adj. Of, relating to, constituting, or being a member of a group: a group discussion; a group effort. v. grouped, group·ing, groups v.tr. To place or arrange in a group: grouped the children according to height. v.intr. To belong to or form a group: The soldiers began to group on the hillside. [French groupe, from Italian gruppo, probably of Germanic origin.] Usage Note: Group as a collective noun can be followed by a singular or plural verb. It takes a singular verb when the persons or things that make up the group are considered collectively: The dance group is ready for rehearsal. Group takes a plural verb when the persons or things that constitute it are considered individually: The group were divided in their sympathies. See Usage Note at collective noun. |
group
Noun
1. a number of people or things considered as a unit
2. a small band of players or singers, esp. of popular music
3. an association of business firms that have the same owner
4. Chem two or more atoms that are bound together in a molecule and behave as a single unit: a methyl group –CH3
5. Chem a vertical column of elements in the periodic table that all have similar properties: the halogen group
Verb
to put into or form into a group [French groupe]
| group (grp) 1. Chemistry a. Two or more atoms that are bound together and act as a unit in a number of chemical compounds, such as a hydroxyl (OH) group. b. In the Periodic Table, a vertical column that contains elements having the same number of electrons in the outermost shell of their atoms. Elements in the same group have similar chemical properties. See Periodic Table. 2. Mathematics A set with an operation whose domain is all ordered pairs of members of the set, such that the operation is binary (operates on two elements) and associative, the set contains the identity element of the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element for the operation. The positive and negative integers and zero form a set that is a group under the operation of ordinary addition, since zero is the identity element of addition and the negative of each integer is its inverse. Groups are used extensively in quantum physics and chemistry to model phenomena involving symmetry and invariance. |
Group a set of things collected as a unit. See also gathering.
Examples: group of columns [three or four columns joined together on the same pedestal], 1731; of company, 1748; of crystals, 1830; of islands; of musicians; of partisans, 1809; of rocks, 1859; of singers; of trees; of woes, 1729; of words, 1748.
1. A flexible administrative and tactical unit composed of either two or more battalions or two or more squadrons. The term also applies to combat support and combat service support units.
2. A number of ships and/or aircraft, normally a subdivision of a force, assigned for a specific purpose. Also called GP.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  group - any number of entities (members) considered as a unitabstract entity, abstraction - a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples human beings, human race, humankind, humans, mankind, humanity, world, man - all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" arrangement - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement" straggle - a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons); "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers" kingdom - a basic group of natural objects biological group - a group of plants or animals biotic community, community - (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" social group - people sharing some social relation aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole edition - all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings" electron shell - a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom; "the chemical properties of an atom are determined by the outermost electron shell" ethnic group, ethnos - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings" association - (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species swarm, cloud - a group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores" subgroup - a distinct and often subordinate group within a group sainthood - saints collectively population - a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" hoi polloi, masses, the great unwashed, multitude, people, mass - the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" varna - (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) circuit - (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals system, scheme - a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" series - a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies" actinide, actinoid, actinon - any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare earth, rare-earth element - any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) halogen - any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions |
| 2. | group - (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions building block, unit - a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids" acyl, acyl group - any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group" alcohol group, alcohol radical - the chemical group -OH aldehyde group, aldehyde radical - the chemical group -CHO alkyl, alkyl group, alkyl radical - any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons allyl, allyl group, allyl radical - the univalent unsaturated organic radical C3H5; derived from propylene amino, amino group - the radical -NH2 amyl - a hydrocarbon radical that occurs in many organic compounds azido group, azido radical - the univalent group N3- derived from hydrazoic acid azo group, azo radical - the bivalent group -N=N- united to two hydrocarbon groups benzoyl group, benzoyl radical - the univalent radical derived from benzoic acid molecule - (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound carbonyl group - the bivalent radical CO carboxyl, carboxyl group - the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids chromophore - the chemical group that gives color to a molecule cyanide group, cyanide radical, cyano group, cyano radical - the monovalent group -CN in a chemical compound glyceryl - a trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals hydrazo group, hydrazo radical - the bivalent group -HNNH- derived from hydrazine hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical - the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols ketone group - a group having the characteristic properties of ketones butyl - a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9) nitro group - the group -NO3 nitrite - the radical -NO2 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid) | |
| 3. | group - a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse subgroup - (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group Abelian group, commutative group - a group that satisfies the commutative law set - (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; "the set of prime numbers is infinite" | |
| Verb | 1. | group - arrange into a group or groups; "Can you group these shapes together?" class, classify, sort out, assort, sort, separate - arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" regroup - reorganize into new groups bracket - classify or group batch - batch together; assemble or process as a batch |
| 2. | group - form a group or group together embed - attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division" pool - join or form a pool of people brigade - form or unite into a brigade foregather, forgather, gather, assemble, meet - collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
group
noun 1. crowd, company, party, band, troop, pack, gathering, gang, bunch, congregation, posse (slang) bevy, assemblage, formation, clump, aggregation
Translations
group [gruːp] n → Gruppe f;
(Comm) → Konzern m
vt (also: group together) (in one group) → zusammentun: (in several groups) → in Gruppen einteilen
vi (also: group together) → sich zusammentun
n group [gruːp]
1 a number of persons or things together a group of boys. groep مَجْموعَه група skupina gruppe die Gruppe ομάδα grupo rühm گروه ryhmä groupe קבוצה झुण्ड skupina, grupa csoport kelompok hópur gruppo 集団 떼 grupė, būrelis grupa; grupējums kumpulan groep gruppe, klynge grupa grupo grup группа skupina skupina grupa grupp กลุ่ม grup 群 група گروہ nhóm, tốp 群
2 a group of people who play or sing together a pop group; a folk group. populêr مُتَعَلِّق بالموسيقى الشَّعْبيَّه популярен pop pop- Pop-... που έχει σχέση με την ποπ pop pop- پاپ؛ عوام پسند yhtye pop פּוֹפ पॉप संगीत pop-umjetnost,pop-muzika pop- (énekes stb.) pop popp- pop 流行歌の 대중 음악의 pop, popmuzikos pop- pop pop{#169}, hit{#169} pop- pop pop (muzică) pop относящийся к поп-музыке pop, populárny pop pop pop- เกี่ยวกับเพลงป๊อบ pop, popüler 流行音樂的 такий, що належить до поп-музики پوپ ميوزک سے متعلق thuộc nhạc pop 流行音乐的
v
to form into a group or groups The children grouped round the teacher. groepeer يَتَجَمَّع групирам се seskupit (se) gruppere sich gruppieren συγκεντρώνω, συγκεντρώνομαι, φτιάχνω ομάδα agrupar(se) kogunema گروه بندی کردن ryhmittyä (se) grouper לסדר/להסתדר בקבוצה इकट्ठा होना grupirati se csoportosul berkelompok hópast, safnast saman raggrupparsi 群がる 모이다 burtis, grupuotis grupēt; grupēties berkumpul zich groeperen danne gruppe(r), gruppere seg zgrupować (się) agrupar-se a (se) grupa группироваться zoskupiť (sa) zbrati se grupisati samlas [], gruppera รวมกลุ่ม gruplanmak, kümelenmek 聚集 групувати(ся) گروہ تشکیل دینا tập hợp lại 聚集
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