Group

Quick meaning: Group is a noun meaning A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
2. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
3. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
4. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
5. (chemistry) A functional group.
6. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
7. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

Example Sentences

Did you see the new jazz group?

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

Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.

A group of people is/are gathering in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.

Word Forms

• groups
• groop
• groupe
• grouping
• grouped

Synonyms for group

Depending on context, synonyms include collection, set, band, ensemble, amass, categorise.

Antonyms for group

Common opposites include individual, monad, union, unity.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aggroup, common, communal, radical, cohort, type.

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