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GROUPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("grouping" is a kind of...):
abstract entity; abstraction (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grouping"):
halogen (any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions)
lanthanide; lanthanoid; lanthanon; rare-earth element; rare earth (any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71))
actinide; actinoid; actinon (any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103)
series (a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection)
scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)
circuit ((law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals)
varna ((Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis))
hoi polloi; mass; masses; multitude; people; the great unwashed (the common people generally)
population (a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area)
citizenry; people (the body of citizens of a state or country)
sainthood (saints collectively)
subgroup (a distinct and often subordinate group within a group)
cloud; swarm (a group of many things in the air or on the ground)
human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world (all of the living human inhabitants of the earth)
arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)
straggle (a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons))
kingdom (a basic group of natural objects)
biological group (a group of plants or animals)
biotic community; community ((ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other)
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
social group (people sharing some social relation)
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
edition (all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time)
electron shell (a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom)
ethnic group; ethnos (people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture)
race (people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock)
association ((ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species)
Instance hyponyms:
Great Lakes (a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The activity of putting things together in groups
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("grouping" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grouping"):
pairing (the act of grouping things or people in pairs)
punctuation (the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases)
phrasing (the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line)
assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)
aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)
sorting (grouping by class or kind or size)
Derivation:
group (arrange into a group or groups)
group (form a group or group together)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A system for classifying things into groups
Synonyms:
grouping; pigeonholing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("grouping" is a kind of...):
classification system (a system for classifying things)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb group
Context examples:
A grouping of those organisms that are commonly used in laboratory research.
(Laboratory Organism, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-taxonomic grouping of bacteria assigned to and including at least three related subspecies from the Mycobacterium avium species.
(Mycobacterium avium complex, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A grouping of occupations and fields of study.
(Occupation or Discipline, NCI Thesaurus)
An informal grouping of rna-containing viruses that are capable of inducing tumors.
(Oncornavirus, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-taxonomic grouping of organisms based on a shared characteristic.
(Other Organism Groupings, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-taxonomic grouping of viruses based on a shared characteristic.
(Other Virus Grouping, NCI Thesaurus)
A non taxonomic grouping of bacteria assigned to and including at least four related species from the Nocardia genus.
(Nocardia asteroides Complex, NCI Thesaurus)
A grouping for all the different types of cells of the nervous system.
(Neuron, Neuroepithelial Cell, and Supporting Cell of the Nervous System, NCI Thesaurus)
A non taxonomic grouping of bacteria assigned to and including related species from the Mycobacterium genus not including those bacteria in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
(Mycobacterium fortuitum Complex, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-taxonomic grouping of bacteria assigned to the Mycobacterium genus, which includes the related species and subspecies M. chelonei subsp. chelonei, M. chelonei subsp. abscessus, M. fortuitum, and M. peregrinum.
(Mycobacterium fortuitum Complex, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
