Translingual

Proper noun

Group

1. A formal category for assembling cultivars, individual plants or assemblages of plants on the basis of defined similarity.

Usage notes

• The name of a Group has all of its components capitalized except for included, not initial, function words and words other than proper nouns following hyphens.

Synonyms

• cultivar-group (included in ICNCP 1995-2004)

English

Alternative forms

• groupe (obsolete)

Noun

group ‎(plural groups)

1. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

   • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

     Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

   there is a group of houses behind the hill;  he left town to join a Communist group‎

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

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.

   Did you see the new jazz group?‎

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 entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl 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.
    • 2012 October 15, Sid Lowe, “Spain aim to take 'very big step' towards 2014 World Cup against France”, in (Please provide the title of the work):

      It is the third of eight matches that Spain will play in Group I, but the coach Vicente del Bosque has described it as being more akin to the first leg of a cup semi-final.

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

• (in group theory): monoid

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• subgroup

Related terms

Translations

Verb

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.

   group the dogs by hair colour

2. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Synonyms

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

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