group

About 271.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group

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. noun An effective divisor on a curve.
4. noun A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

   Did you see the new jazz group?

5. noun A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
6. noun A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
7. noun A functional group.

   Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.

8. noun A subset of a culture or of a society.

Similar words

aggroup common communal radical mathematical group cohort type class collective kind

Often followed by

of and is in to was that members or

Word family

groupable grouped grouping groups