group
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(noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
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Synonyms: grouping |
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Related Words: accumulation, aggregation, arrangement, assemblage, biological group, circuit, citizenry, collection, edition, ethnic group, ethnos, hoi polloi, human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, kingdom, man, mankind, mass, masses, multitude, people, population, race, sainthood, social group, straggle, subgroup, system, world |
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(verb) arrange into a group or groups; "Can you group these shapes together?" |
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Related Words: assort, batch, bracket, chunk, class, classify, collocate, lump, regroup, separate, sort, sort out |
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(verb) form a group or group together |
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Synonyms: aggroup |
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Related Words: assemble, brigade, foregather, forgather, gang, gang up, gather, meet, team, team up |
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(noun) a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse |
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Synonyms: mathematical group |
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Related Words: Abelian group, commutative group, set, subgroup |
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(noun) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule |
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Synonyms: radical |
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Related Words: Benzoyl radical, acetyl, alkyl, alkyl group, allyl, allyl group, allyl radical, arsenic group, azido group, azido radical, azo group, azo radical, benzoyl group, benzyl, benzyl group, benzyl radical, cacodyl, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical, carbonyl group, carboxyl, carboxyl group, cyanide group, cyanide radical, cyano group, cyano radical, glyceryl, hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical, matter, methylene group, methylene radical, propyl, propyl group, propyl radical, substance, uranyl, uranyl group, uranyl radical, vinyl, vinyl group, vinyl radical |
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(satellite adjective) for or by a group rather than individuals; "dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew"- Paul Roche; "a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared"; "a group effort" |
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Synonyms: communal |
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