group

IPA: grˈup

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.

Examples of "group" in Sentences

* @param string $group The group of settings to load.
-- This group of game birds will be the first to be exterminated in North America as a _group_.
Get group members and contained instance state, by group name foreach ($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_.