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group

noun
/ɡɹuːp/UK/ɡɹup/US/ɡɹʉp/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830. Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

  1. calqued from groupe
  2. derived from gruppo
  3. borrowed from groupe — “cluster, group”

Definitions

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

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

  2. A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element,…

    A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

    • Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
    • 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277, In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).

  3. An effective divisor on a curve.

  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

      • Did you see the new jazz group?

    2. A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

    3. A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

    4. A functional group.

      • Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.

    5. A subset of a culture or of a society.

    6. An air force formation.

    7. A collection of formations or rock strata.

    8. A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and…

      A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

    9. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

    10. A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems

      A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

    11. A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period…

      A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.

      • It is the third of eight matches that Spain will play in Group I, but the coach Vicente del Bosque has described it as being more akin to the first leg of a cup semi-final.

    12. A commercial organization.

    13. Group therapy.

    14. To put together to form a group.

      • group the dogs by hair colour

    15. To come together to form a group.

      • For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal.

    16. To eliminate in the group stage of a competition.

      • Clubs like Real Sociedad are getting grouped in the Europa League. Even clubs like Atletico Madrid and Villareal are finding it hard to progress to the R16 in the UCL.

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Derived

abelian group, ABO group, action group, activity group psychotherapy, additive group, advocacy group, affine group, age group, airgroup, algebraic fundamental group, algebraic group, allogroup, alternating group, automorphism group, baby monster group, battlegroup, biogroup, block group, blood group, boron group, boundary group, braid group, Brauer group, breakout group, campaign group, capturing group, carbon group, cell group, chain group, chatgroup, chat group, Chow group, chromium group, circle group, codegroup, cogroup, community group, commutative group, concern group, control group · +234 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for group. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA