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group·ing

(gro͞o′pĭng)

1. The act or process of uniting into groups.

2. A collection of people or things united into a group.

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grouping

(ˈɡruːpɪŋ)

a planned arrangement of things, people, etc, within a group

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group•ing

(ˈgru pɪŋ)

n.

1. an act or process of placing in groups.

2. a set or arrangement of persons or things in a group.

[1740–50]

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Noun	1.	grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit group abstract 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 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 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" 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.	grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups pairing - the act of grouping things or people in pairs punctuation - the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" phrasing - the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, assortment, categorisation, categorization - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type assembling, collecting, aggregation, collection - the act of gathering something together sorting - grouping by class or kind or size
	3.	grouping - a system for classifying things into groups pigeonholing classification system - a system for classifying things

grouping

noun organization, group, body, association, league, circle There were two main political groupings pressing for independence.

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grouping

noun

A way or condition of being arranged:

arrangement, categorization, classification, deployment, disposal, disposition, distribution, formation, layout, lineup, order, organization, placement, sequence.

Translations

ομαδοποίηση

gruppo raggruppamento

группировка

grouping

[ˈgruːpɪŋ] N → agrupamiento m

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grouping

[ˈgruːpɪŋ] n (= group) → groupement mgroup therapy n → thérapie f de groupe

grouping

n → Gruppierung f; (= group of things also) → Anordnung f

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In Lecture V we found reason to think that the ultimate constituents* of the world do not have the characteristics of either mind or matter as ordinarily understood: they are not solid persistent objects moving through space, nor are they fragments of "consciousness." But we found two ways of grouping particulars, one into "things" or "pieces of matter," the other into series of "perspectives," each series being what may be called a "biography." Before we can define either sensations or images, it is necessary to consider this twofold classification in somewhat greater detail, and to derive from it a definition of perception.

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Once a deduction has been allocated to a class of gross income, it is necessary to apportion the deduction within the class of gross income to the statutory grouping (or to several statutory groupings) and to the residual grouping of gross income.

Allocation and apportionment of expenses for Sec. 199 purposes: for many taxpayers, calculation of the Sec. 199 deduction will require an enormous amount of work. This article focuses on one aspect of the deduction, the allocation and apportionment of expenses under the Sec. 861 regulations and the proposed Sec. 199 regulations

Indeed in this study students emphasized that a weakness in the coaching program being investigated was that grouping was not based on friendships as expressed by the following male student: "Most of the time you go to coaching you can't hang with your friends.