- any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- a number of persons or things ranged or considered together as being related in some way.
- two or more atoms specifically arranged, as the hydroxyl group, –OH.
- Linguistics.
- (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.
- any grouping of languages, whether it is made on the basis of geography, genetic relationship, or something else.
- a division of stratified rocks comprising two or more formations.
- Military.
- a flexible administrative and tactical unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.
- an administrative and operational unit subordinate to a wing, usually composed of two or more squadrons.
- a section of an orchestra comprising the instruments of the same class.
- a number of figures or objects shown in an arrangement together.
- 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.
- a phrase: nominal group; verbal group.
- to place or associate together in a group, as with others.
- to arrange in or form into a group or groups.
- to form a group.
- to be part of a group.
- a number of persons or things considered as a collective unit
- a number of persons bound together by common social standards, interests, etc
- (as modifier)
- a small band of players or singers, esp of pop music
- a number of animals or plants considered as a unit because of common characteristics, habits, etc
- grammar another word, esp in systemic grammar, for phrase (def. 1)
- an association of companies under a single ownership and control, consisting of a holding company, subsidiary companies, and sometimes associated companies
- two or more figures or objects forming a design or unit in a design, in a painting or sculpture
- a military formation comprising complementary arms and services, usually for a purpose
- an air force organization of higher level than a squadron
- two or more atoms that are bound together in a molecule and behave as a single unit
- a vertical column of elements in the periodic table that all have similar electronic structures, properties, and valencies
- any stratigraphical unit, esp the unit for two or more formations
- a set that has an associated operation that combines any two members of the set to give another member and that also contains an identity element and an inverse for each element
- See blood group
- to arrange or place (things, people, etc) in or into a group or (of things, etc) to form into a group
