grouping

American  

[groo-ping] / ˈgru pɪŋ /

noun

1. an act or process of placing in groups.

2. a set or arrangement of persons or things in a group.

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grouping British  

/ ˈɡruːpɪŋ /

noun

1. a planned arrangement of things, people, etc, within a group

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Etymology

Origin of grouping

1740–50; See group, -ing ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

Instead of looking directly for faint starlight, they searched for tight groupings of globular clusters, which are dense, spherical collections of stars that typically orbit galaxies.

From Science Daily

Significant groupings appear beneath the Himalayas in southern Asia and near the Bering Strait between Asia and North America, south of the Arctic Circle.

From Science Daily

“Our grouping is focused on the supply side of the ledger,” said Helberg.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each subject and approach is an ongoing concern left intentionally open-ended, and never contained within a single project, title or grouping.

From Los Angeles Times

We then pulled all returns over the period and calculated the annualized return and annualized volatility, or the price fluctuation over the course of a year, for each of the bond groupings.

From The Wall Street Journal

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