group

Meanings

Noun

• A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
• A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
• An effective divisor on a curve.
• A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
• A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
• A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
• A functional group.
• A subset of a culture or of a society.
• An air force formation.
• A collection of formations or rock strata.
• A number of users with 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• A commercial organization.

Verb

• To put together to form a group.
• To come together to form a group.

Related

Similar words

• collection, set
• band, ensemble

Narrower meaning words

• Abelian group
• encounter group
• en
• fundamental group
• girl group
• Lie group
• minority group
• p-group
• subgroup
• triangle group
• von Dyck group

Broader meaning words

• monoid

Origin

• From French groupe, from Italian gruppo, groppo, from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz ("lump, round mass, body, crop"), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- ("to crumple, bend, crawl"). Cognate with German Kropf ("crop, craw, bunch"), Old English cropp, croppa, Dutch krop ("craw"), Icelandic kroppr ("hump, bunch"). crop, and croup.