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Definition of 'group' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) group
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation.

2.  group
a number of persons or things ranged or considered together as being related in some way.

3.  group
any of the vertical columns of elements in the periodic table.

4.  group
a division of stratified rocks comprising two or more formations.

5.  group
an administrative and tactical unit of the U.S. Army consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.

6.  group
an administrative and operational unit of the U.S. Air Force subordinate to a wing, usu. composed of two or more squadrons.

7.  group
a section of an orchestra comprising the instruments of the same class.

8.  group
an algebraic system that is closed under an associative operation, as multiplication or addition, and in which there is an identity element that, on operating on another element, leaves the second element unchanged, and in which each element has corresponding to it a unique element that, on operating on the first, results in the identity element.

9. (v.t.) group
to place together in a group, as with others.

10.  group
to form into a group or groups.

11. (v.i.) group
to form a group.

12.  group
to be part of a group.

Etymology:  (1665–75; < F groupe < It gruppo&indirdesc; Gmc; akin to crop)

Definition of 'group' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) group, grouping
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

2. (noun) group, radical, chemical group
(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

3. (verb) group, mathematical group
a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

4. (verb) group
arrange into a group or groups
"Can you group these shapes together?"

5. (verb) group, aggroup
form a group or group together


Definition of 'group' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) group
several people or things together
a group of students/plants/houses; We will be working in groups of four people.; ethnic groups

2.  group
an organization
Christian/community groups; human rights groups

3. (verb) group
to put things together in a group
Group the cards according to their titles.


Definition of 'group' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) group
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. (noun) group
an assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata

3. (noun) group
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. (noun) group
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

5. (noun) group
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


Definition of 'group' Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms 

1.  group
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. 3. A long-standing functional organization that is formed to support a broad function within a joint force commander


Translation of 'group' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a number of persons or things together
a group of boys.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: groep Arabic flag Arabic: مَجْموعَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: група
Brazilian flag Brazilian: grupo Czech flag Czech: skupina German flag German: die Gruppe
Danish flag Danish: gruppe Greek flag Greek: ομάδα Spanish flag Spanish: grupo
Estonian flag Estonian: rühm Farsi flag Farsi: گروه Finnish flag Finnish: ryhmä
French flag French: groupe Hebrew flag Hebrew: קבוצה Hindi flag Hindi: झुण्ड
Croatian flag Croatian: skupina, grupa Hungarian flag Hungarian: csoport Indonesian flag Indonesian: kelompok
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hópur Italian flag Italian: gruppo Japanese flag Japanese: 集団
Korean flag Korean: 무리, 모임, 떼 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: grupė, būrelis Latvian flag Latvian: grupa; grupējums
Malay flag Malay: kumpulan Dutch flag Dutch: groep Norwegian flag Norwegian: gruppe, klynge
Polish flag Polish: grupa Persian flag Persian: گروه Pashto flag Pashto: ډله
Portuguese flag Portuguese: grupo Romanian flag Romanian: grup Russian flag Russian: группа
Slovak flag Slovak: skupina Slovenian flag Slovenian: skupina Serbian flag Serbian: grupa
Swedish flag Swedish: grupp Thai flag Thai: กลุ่ม Turkish flag Turkish: grup
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese:  Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: група Urdu flag Urdu: گروہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nhóm, tốp Chinese flag Chinese: 

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