group

English

/ɡɹuːp/

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French groupe (group, cluster) derived from Italian gruppo derived from Latin *cruppo, grupus derived from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (body, crop, lump, round mass, mass, heap, collection, bunch, trunk) derived from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (bend, crawl, crumple, curve, arch, warp, crook, crouch).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*grewb-

Gloss

bend, crawl, crumple, curve, arch, warp, crook, crouch

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

曲

Emoji

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