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Word: group (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
  • A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
  • astronomy A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
  • A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
  • chemistry A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
  • chemistry A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.
  • computing In the Unix operating system, a number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
  • geology A collection of formations or rock strata.
  • grouptheory A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
  • military An air force formation.
  • sociology A subset of a culture or of a society.

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Verb:

  • transitive To put together to form a group.

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