Groups Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Groups? What is its meaning in the dictionary? How to pronounce? Example sentences, Synonyms, Antonyms, Derivations, Words starting with Groups, Related sentences, Words ending with Groups and more...

Word: Groups

How to pronounce: gruːps

How to pronounce: gruːp

Noun

Definitions:

1. A number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together.

Example sentences: "A group of boys approached"

2. A set of elements occupying a column in the periodic table and having broadly similar properties arising from their similar electronic structure.

3. A set of elements, together with an associative binary operation, which contains an inverse for each element and an identity element.

Example sentences: "Netto made major steps towards abstract group theory when he combined permutation group results and groups in number theory."

4. (in systemic grammar) a level of structure between clause and word, broadly corresponding to phrase in other grammars.

Example sentences: "An acronym is a word group created in a similar way to an initialism but which is pronounced as a word."

Verb

Definitions:

1. Put in a group or groups.

Example sentences: "Three chairs were grouped around a table"

Synonyms:

group

Synonyms:

group together

band

interest group

groups

collective

ensemble

organization

gang

reference group

team

group box

family

range