group
IPA: grˈup
noun
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- (chemistry) A functional group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- (military) An air force formation.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- (music) 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.
- (sports) 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.
- (business) A commercial organization.
verb
- (transitive) To put together to form a group.
- (intransitive) To come together to form a group.
Examples of "group" in Sentences
- He was the first member of the group.
- They are the members of the virtual group.
- The man was the honorable member of the group.
- Meeting maturational needs modern group analysis.
- * @param string $group The group of settings to load.
- The article says that the group has biannual meetings.
- She is the secretary of the class and of the group as well.
- Cherish is the secretary of the class and of the group as well.
- Clark is the only member of the group willing to meet the press.
- The thrift of any member of a group is beneficial to that member.
- Relationship to the mapping class group and classification of braids.
- -- This group of game birds will be the first to be exterminated in North America as a _group_.
- Get group members and contained instance state, by group name foreach ($group in get-monitoringobjectGroup) {if ($group.
- But so much of the more bus/less train group is thinking about where they live now and how they can't get there from here.
- Return contained instances of a group and state of each instance foreach ($group in get-monitoringobjectGroup) {if ($group.
- That young gentleman seems to distinguish between pointing out that a certain group is responsible for a large proportion of crime and being racist.
- In organic chemistry distinction is made between sulphonic acids of the aliphatic and the aromatic series, the characteristic group of these acids being the so-called _sulphonic acid group_, HSO_3.
- And more importantly, when you click that 'start a community' button on your profile, you are essentially creating a group, complete with the functionalities I mentioned earlier-- blogs for the group, media files just for the group, access control *just for the group*.
- = If the _cone of fire_ be intercepted by a target (for example, A O, Fig. 44) at right angles to the axis of the cone, the shot holes will make a pattern or group called the _shot group_, the holes being the thickest approximately in the center of the group, called the _center of impact_.