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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

   “A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.”

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   An effective divisor on a curve.

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

   “Did you see the new jazz group?”

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

7. Meaning 7 · noun

   A functional group.

   “Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.”

8. Meaning 8 · noun

   A subset of a culture or of a society.

9. Meaning 9 · noun

   An air force formation.

10. Meaning 10 · noun

    A collection of formations or rock strata.

11. Meaning 11 · noun

    A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

12. Meaning 12 · noun

    An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    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.

14. Meaning 14 · noun

    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.

15. Meaning 15 · noun

    A commercial organization.

16. Meaning 16 · verb

    To put together to form a group.

    “group the dogs by hair colour”

17. Meaning 17 · verb

    To come together to form a group.

How this word is used

• Everyday “A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.”
• General “Did you see the new jazz group?”
• General “Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.”
• Everyday “group the dogs by hair colour”

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