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group⋅ing

  [groo-ping]
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–noun
1. an act or process of placing in groups.
2. a set or arrangement of persons or things in a group.
Origin:
1740–50; See group, -ing 1 , -ing 2

group

  [groop]
–noun
1. any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
2. a number of persons or things ranged or considered together as being related in some way.
3. Also called radical. Chemistry. two or more atoms specifically arranged, as the hydroxyl group, –OH. Compare free radical.
4. Linguistics.
a. (in the classification of related languages within a family) a category of a lower order than a subbranch and of a higher order than a subgroup: the Low German group of West Germanic languages.
b. any grouping of languages, whether it is made on the basis of geography, genetic relationship, or something else.
5. Geology. a division of stratified rocks comprising two or more formations.
6. Military.
a. Army. a flexible administrative and tactical unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.
b. Air Force. an administrative and operational unit subordinate to a wing, usually composed of two or more squadrons.
7. Music. a section of an orchestra comprising the instruments of the same class.
8. Art. a number of figures or objects shown in an arrangement together.
9. Mathematics. an algebraic system that is closed under an associative operation, as multiplication or addition, and in which there is an identity element that, on operating on another element, leaves the second element unchanged, and in which each element has corresponding to it a unique element that, on operating on the first, results in the identity element.
10. Grammar (chiefly British). a phrase: nominal group; verbal group.
–verb (used with object)
11. to place or associate together in a group, as with others.
12. to arrange in or form into a group or groups.
–verb (used without object)
13. to form a group.
14. to be part of a group.
Origin:
1665–75; < F groupe < It gruppo ≪ Gmc

Related forms:
groupwise, adverb

Synonyms:
12. order, organize, classify, combine.

Usage note:
1, 2. See collective noun.
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group   (grōōp)   
n.  
  1. An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation: a group of dinner guests; a group of buildings near the road.
  2. Two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture.
  3. A number of individuals or things considered together because of similarities: a small group of supporters across the country.
  4. Linguistics A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family.
    1. A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.
    2. A unit of two or more squadrons in the U.S. Air Force, smaller than a wing.
    3. Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.
    4. A column in the periodic table of the elements.
    5. A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.
  6. A class or collection of related objects or entities, as:
    1. Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.
    2. A column in the periodic table of the elements.
    3. A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.
  7. Mathematics A set with a binary associative operation such that the operation admits an identity element and each element of the set has an inverse element for the operation.
adj.  Of, relating to, constituting, or being a member of a group: a group discussion; a group effort.
v.   grouped, group·ing, groups

v.   tr.
To place or arrange in a group: grouped the children according to height.
v.   intr.
To belong to or form a group: The soldiers began to group on the hillside.

[French groupe, from Italian gruppo, probably of Germanic origin.]
Usage Note: Group as a collective noun can be followed by a singular or plural verb. It takes a singular verb when the persons or things that make up the group are considered collectively: The dance group is ready for rehearsal. Group takes a plural verb when the persons or things that constitute it are considered individually: The group were divided in their sympathies. See Usage Note at collective noun.
group·ing   (grōō'pĭng)   
n.  
  1. The act or process of uniting into groups.
  2. A collection of people or things united into a group.
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Grouping

Group"ing\, n. (Fine Arts) The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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