simple group

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.

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simple group

In further time-honoured Fifa fashion, what should have been a simple group stage was needlessly complicated.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2020

At first glance, the cover photo looked like a simple group shot of the characters, but to me the photo-montage represents the very essence of the deceptiveness of reality that is the Matrix.

From Time Magazine Archive

There would then have crept into human experience the necessity for something of common action among a wider range than the simple group.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by Gomme, George Laurence

But this is not the sole determinant of the numerical limits of the simple group in such objective rhythms.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

It was such a sweet, simple group in the bright sunlight, which lighted their dear eyes and their blond curls.

From Ten Tales by Learned, Walter