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simple group

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noun

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


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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

Cimabue has followed the Greek formula, and his simple group appears to me to have great feeling and simplicity.

From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

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

From Ten Tales by Walter Learned

The nature of such limits is not to be determined by the introspective results of experiments in which the observer has endeavored to hold together the largest possible number of elements in a simple group.

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

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