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group
  1. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
  2. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
  3. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
  4. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
  5. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
  6. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
  7. (chemistry) A functional group.
  8. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
  9. (military) An air force formation.
  10. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
  11. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
  12. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
  13. (music) 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.
  14. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
  15. (business) A commercial organization.
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  17. Examples:
    1. “She placed the colored clothes into a separate group from the white clothes.”
      “A group of boys were loitering outside the shop.”
      “This group of insect has a tendency to spread disease.”
grouping
  1. A collection of things or people united as a group.
  2. The action of the verb to group.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Thus, his goal is to save time and make the exposition less tedious, but the grouping of animals into families does not in itself constitute a theoretical advance.”
      “This food grouping includes corn, beans, and squash, but is also enriched by the addition of chilies, cactus, maguey, and amaranth.”
      “You can re-energize tired sections of the garden simply by installing a lovely pot, or grouping of pots, in them.”
groupthink
  1. A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A more in-depth understanding can also serve as a buffer against the perils of groupthink.”
      “Like many trends, this one is driven in part by Hollywood's marketing groupthink.”
      “For one, she will be astonished by not only the pervasive groupthink but how little awareness there is of the narrowness of thought present.”
groupality
  1. (humorous) The sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of a group of individuals; the organized pattern of behavioral characteristics of a group of individuals.
groupuscule
  1. A small political group, especially of an extremist faction.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There, he gave a speech accompanied by his younger cousin Chris, sporting a t-shirt advertising the anti-semitic white nationalist groupuscule Nationalist Alternative, and surrounded by other members of the group.”
      “Similarly, no more attention would be devoted to a striking near-consensus of economic opinion than to its negation by a speaker representing a groupuscule of eight.”
groupworker
groupism
  1. The habit or policy of associating in groups or cliques.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She denied that groupism prevailed in the state unit of the party, adding that a difference of opinion of intra-party issue was bound to happen in a national party.”
      “The challenge is to know one's own parental and cultural roots, and yet not fall into the trap of clannish groupism, which has stifled Tibetan parliamentarian politics.”
groupspeak
  1. The jargon used by a particular group.
groupthinker
  1. One who engages in groupthink.
groupification
  1. the act or process of forming a group
groupwork
  1. (education, therapy) Work done in groups.
groupness
  1. The quality of being a group.
groupmate
  1. A member of the same group.
groupe
  1. Obsolete spelling of group
  2. Examples:
    1. “Sometimes each arm produces several smaller arms, and on the head stands a pyramidal groupe of smaller heads.”
      “Le groupe B est compose des Bresiliens de Molico Osasco, des Japonaises de Hisamistsu Spring et des Russes du Dinamo Kazan.”
      “L'une des particularites du fragment reside dans son groupe de trois Alleluia pour le Lundi de Paques.”
grouplet
  1. A small group.
groupifications
  1. plural of groupification
groupthinkers
  1. plural of groupthinker
groupuscules
  1. plural of groupuscule
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He will be comfortable with his citation on the blogrolls of various right-wing groupuscules and assorted reactionary ranters.”
      “The 1970s seemed to be the age of the groupuscules, the tiny, fissiparous radical activist groups which spread across Western Europe.”
      “It was rather a grouping in the sense of Charles Fourier's socialist cells or groupuscules, based, as Breton insisted, on the idea that all passions are good.”
groupworkers
  1. plural of groupworker
groupalities
  1. plural of groupality
groupmates
  1. plural of groupmate
groupings
  1. plural of grouping
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Japanese cedar is a handsome specimen for windscreens, borders and groupings on large properties.”
      “Political groupings include former communists, socialists, agrarians, liberals, nationalists and various centrist and independent forces.”
      “The ideal structure of topsoil is granular, crumb-size groupings of soil particles and plenty of pore spaces.”
grouplets
  1. plural of grouplet
groupes
  1. plural of groupe
groups
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