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.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. |  group - any number of entities (members) considered as a unitarrangement - 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 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" 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 citizenry, people - the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish people" population - a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" 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" 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 moleculechemical 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" amyl - a hydrocarbon radical that occurs in many organic compounds molecule - (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound chromophore - the chemical group that gives color to a molecule glyceryl - a trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals ketone group - a group having the characteristic properties of ketones butyl - a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9) 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 inversesubgroup - (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group 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?"regroup - reorganize into new groups batch - batch together; assemble or process as a batch | | 2. | group - form a group or group togetherteam, team up - form a team; "We teamed up for this new project" 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 |
group noun 1. crowd, company, party, band, troop, pack, gathering, gang, bunch, congregation, posse ( slang) bevy, assemblage, formation, clump, aggregation verb 2. arrange, order, sort, class, range, gather, organize, assemble, put together, classify, marshal, bracket, assort
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.
 Translations group [gruːp] n → grupo; (vb) (also: group together) vi → agruparse
 group [gruːp] n → groupe mvt (also: group together) → grouper vi (also: group together) → se grouper
 group [gruːp] n → Gruppe f; vt (also: group together) ( in one group) → zusammentun: ( in several groups) → in Gruppen einteilen vi (also: group together) → sich zusammentun
 group [gruːp] n → gruppo; vi → raggrupparsi
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