group

1. 1

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

   • there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group
   • A group of people is/are gathering in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
2. 2

   A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

   • 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277, In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).
3. 3

   An effective divisor on a curve.archaic

4. 4

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

   • Did you see the new jazz group?
5. 5

   A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

6. 6

   A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

7. 7

   A functional group.

   • Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
8. 8

   A subset of a culture or of a society.

9. 9

   An air force formation.

10. 10

    A collection of formations or rock strata.

syn. group

ant. individual · monad · union · unity

1. 1

   To put together to form a group.transitive

   • group the dogs by hair colour
2. 2

   To come together to form a group.intransitive

   • For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal.
3. 3

   To eliminate in the group stage of a competition.transitive

   • Clubs like Real Sociedad are getting grouped in the Europa League. Even clubs like Atletico Madrid and Villareal are finding it hard to progress to the R16 in the UCL.

syn. categorise · categorize · classify · collect · collect up · gather · gather together · gather up · begather · foregather · throng