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group

[ groop ]
/ grup /
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noun
verb (used with object)
to place or associate together in a group, as with others.
to arrange in or form into a group or groups.
verb (used without object)
to form a group.
to be part of a group.
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Origin of group

1665–75; <French groupe<Italian gruppo ≪ Germanic

grammar notes for group

1, 2. See collective noun.

OTHER WORDS FROM group

groupwise, adverbsu·per·group, nounun·grouped, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for group

group
/ (ɡruːp) /

noun
verb
to arrange or place (things, people, etc) in or into a group or (of things, etc) to form into a group

Word Origin for group

C17: from French groupe, of Germanic origin; compare Italian gruppo; see crop
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Scientific definitions for group

group
[ grōōp ]

Chemistry
  1. Two or more atoms that are bound together and act as a unit in a number of chemical compounds, such as a hydroxyl (OH) group.
  2. In the Periodic Table, a vertical column that contains elements having the same number of electrons in the outermost shell of their atoms. Elements in the same group have similar chemical properties. See Periodic Table.
Mathematics A set with an operation whose domain is all ordered pairs of members of the set, such that the operation is binary (operates on two elements) and associative, the set contains the identity element of the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element for the operation. The positive and negative integers and zero form a set that is a group under the operation of ordinary addition, since zero is the identity element of addition and the negative of each integer is its inverse. Groups are used extensively in quantum physics and chemistry to model phenomena involving symmetry and invariance.
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