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[edit] Alternative spellings

• groupe (obsolete)

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /gɹuːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp

[edit] Etymology

From French groupe.

[edit] Noun

group (plural groups)

1. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

   There is a group of houses behind the hill.

   A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.

   He left town to join a Communist group

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. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

   Did you see the new jazz group?

4. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
5. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
6. (chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.
7. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
8. (military) An air force formation.
9. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
10. (computing) In the Unix operating system, a number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

[edit] Synonyms

• (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
• (people who perform music together): band, ensemble

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[edit] Verb

to group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)

1. (transitive) To put together to form a group.

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• (put together to form a group): amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up

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