Definition of groups Groups
/gɹuˈps/ - [grups] -
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What does groups mean?
Wiktionary 
- groups (Noun)
Plural of group.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| group - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | ||
| grouping | ||
| abstract entity, abstraction a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | ||
| human beings, human race, humankind, humans, mankind, humanity, world, man the quality of being humane | ||
| arrangement the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | ||
| 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 members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" | ||
| social group people sharing some social relation | ||
| aggregation, accumulation, assemblage, collection the act of accumulating | ||
| edition the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published | ||
| 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 a contest of speed; "the race is to the swift" | ||
| association the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association" | ||
| 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 (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group | ||
| sainthood the status and dignity of a saint | ||
| citizenry, people the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish people" | ||
| population the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals" | ||
| 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 an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | ||
| scheme, system an elaborate and systematic plan of action | ||
| series (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions | ||
| actinide, actinoid actinon | ||
| lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) | ||
| group - (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule | ||
| radical, chemical group | ||
| building block, unit a block of material used in construction work | ||
| molecule (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound | ||
| chemical science, chemistry the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | ||
| 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 | ||
| benzyl, benzyl group, benzyl radical the univalent radical derived from toluene | ||
| benzoyl group, benzoyl radical the univalent radical derived from benzoic acid | ||
| arsenic group, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical, cacodyl the univalent group derived from arsine | ||
| 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 | ||
| methylene, methylene group, methylene radical the bivalent radical CH2 derived from methane | ||
| propyl, propyl group, propyl radical the monovalent organic group C3H7- obtained from propane | ||
| 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) | ||
| uranyl, uranyl group, uranyl radical the bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids | ||
| group - a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse | ||
| mathematical group | ||
| set several exercises intended to be done in series; "he did four sets of the incline bench press" | ||
| subgroup (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group | ||
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| group - form a group or group together | ||
| aggroup | ||
| foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" | ||
| team, 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" | ||
| gang, gang up act as an organized group | ||
| pool join or form a pool of people | ||
| brigade form or unite into a brigade | ||
| group - arrange into a group or groups; "Can you group these shapes together?" | ||
| class, assort, sort, classify, sort out, 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 | ||
| chunk, collocate, lump group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | ||
| batch batch together; assemble or process as a batch | ||
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Wiktionary
- group (Noun)
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. - group (Noun)
A set with an associative binary operation , under which there exists an identity element , and such that each element has an inverse. - group (Noun)
A usually small group of people who perform music together. - group (Noun)
A small number up to about fifty of galaxies that are near each other. - group (Noun)
A column in the periodic table of chemical elements. - group (Noun)
A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group. - group (Noun)
A subset of a culture or of a society. - group (Noun)
An air force formation. - group (Noun)
A collection of formations or rock strata. - group (Noun)
In the Unix operating system , a number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals. - group (Noun)
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter. - group (Verb)
To put together to form a group. - group (Verb)
To come together to form a group.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- group (n.)
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. - group (n.)
An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata. - group (n.)
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. - group (n.)
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. - group (n.)
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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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group
(Military term) To distribute and to order the troops in units. -
group
A number of things or persons that have some relation to one another. -
group
Ensemble of elements which belong to the same column of the periodic table -
group
Set of things or people between which exists cohesion or agreement. -
group
To put together to form a group.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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group
grōōp, n. a number of persons or things together: a number of individual things related, in some definite way differentiating them from others: (art) a combination of figures forming a harmonious whole.—v.t. to form into a group or groups.—v.i. to fall into harmonious combination.—n. Group′ing (art), the act of disposing and arranging figures or objects in a group. [Fr. groupe—It. groppo, a bunch, knot—Teut.; cf. Ger. kropf, protuberance.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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group
A set of islands not ranged in a row so as to form a chain, and the word is often used synonymously with cluster.
Wikipedia 
- A group is a collection or set of things. The things in a group often share a property or are similar in some way. For example, the things in the group might be in the same place.
