group
Definitions
General English
- noun a way of classifying things
- noun people playing music together
General Science
- noun a vertical column in the periodic table that contains elements with similar properties
Accounting
- noun several companies linked together in the same organisation
Aviation
- noun a number of individual items or people brought together because of similarities
- noun a collection of letters, numbers or symbols used in weather forecasting, etc.
Computing
- noun a set of computer records containing related information
- noun a six-character word used in telegraphic communications
- noun a collection of icons, of files or programs displayed together in a window
- noun a collection of users conveniently identified by one name
Electronics
- A collection of things. Such a collection is usually located together, and/or regarded as a unit. For example, a family of chemical elements with similar properties arranged vertically within a periodic table.
- In communications, a number of channels treated as a unit. For instance, a collection of associated voice channels in frequency-division multiplexing.
- In computers, a collection of elements regarded as a unit. For example, a set of records in a database.
Information & Library Science
- noun a collection of people or things that are in the same place at the same time or have something in common
Media Studies
- noun the social networks that a person is involved in, either primary such as the family, or secondary such as friendship groups, work colleagues, etc.
Medical
- noun several people, animals or things which are all close together
- verb to bring things or people together in a group, or come together in a group
Military
- noun a number of people or things which are close together
- noun a division of the air force
Origin & History of “group”
Group was originally a term in art criticism. It referred to the disposition of a set of figures or objects in a painting, drawing, etc. Not until the 18th century was it used in its current general sense. It comes via French groupe from Italian gruppo, which was borrowed originally from prehistoric Germanic *kruppaz ‘round mass, lump’ (formed from the same base as produced English crop).
