group
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8.6
- noun
- /ɡruːp/
- Specialized
:
grupo
- When studying transformations, it's essential to determine whether the set behaves like a group under the defined operation.
Those are the designations of these Lie groups.
- Those are the designations of these Lie groups.
- We can say things like, let's define a group out of sets as blah blah blah.
Examples
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One, find all the simple groups, and two, find all of the ways to combine them.
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There were two groups, an experimental group (N=28) and a control group (N=29).
Academic text (2008) -
We work in separate groups.
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I'm gonna split you up into groups of four.
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In some studies, the tables are turned, and the experimental groups receive less than the control groups.
Academic text (2008) -
He was part of the control group.
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Results indicated those in the experimental group learned to read more efficiently than those in the control group.
Academic text (2015) -
As they got closer to it, a big group of green-and-red birds flew overhead.
Fiction book (1999) -
We took the elevators down to the basement, where the physics group had its offices and laboratories.
Fiction book (2000) -
Asians and Pacific Islanders will continue to be the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
A collection of items with a rule to combine them, a do-nothing element, and opposites
Idioms
Compounds
66
2.8
A group of people who meet regularly to give each other help and advice about a shared problem
59
2.2
People of about the same age that researchers study together for social or statistical reasons
- NSFW
57
4.9
A group that uses violence and fear against civilians to reach political goals
40
3.9
A group that tries to persuade people in power to change laws or rules for a cause
32
2.8
A group of people who meet regularly to learn and talk about school or course material
- Specialized
18
3.4
A small group that meets with a therapist to talk about personal problems
18
3.7
A group of people who try to influence government decisions about one issue
10
3.5
A small group of people who are most important in a larger organization or activity
- Specialized
5
4.7
A group of troops from different countries ready to move quickly to a crisis
4
4.1
A group that tries to change government decisions to help a cause or its members
3
6.5
A group of people who follow strict religious rules and reject modern ideas
3
3.9
A group that tries to influence government decisions often by talking to politicians
3
2.0
A conversation among several people about one topic to share ideas or make a decision
- Specialized
2
3.2
A set of blood types people inherit from their parents that shows which blood they can receive
2
7.7
A senior officer in the Royal Air Force with the same rank as an army colonel
- Specialized
2
3.1
A company plan that helps employees pay medical or accident costs, usually cheaper than individual plans
- Jargon
1
5.4
A unit of the United States Air Force larger than a squadron and smaller than a wing
- Offensive
1
8.7
An armed organization from Egypt that uses violence for political and religious aims
- Jargon
1
3.5
A small group inside an organization that works on a specific topic or project, not for politics
- Specialized
1
3.5
A small group of atoms joined together that is part of a larger molecule and gives it certain properties
- Specialized
1
8.3
A group meeting where people honestly talk about their feelings to understand themselves and each other
1
9.9
An armed group from Libya formed in 1995 that was against the government and joined al-Qaeda
- Specialized
1
7.2
A group of genes on the same chromosome that parents often pass together to their children
- Specialized
1
5.3
A small group of atoms in a molecule with one carbon and three hydrogen atoms
- Specialized
1
7.0
A set of living things that are put together because they are related, for example lions and tigers
- Archaic
1
8.1
A small band that plays folk and blues songs with guitars and homemade instruments
- Specialized
A part of a molecule with a six-carbon ring and a CO group that joins other atoms
- Specialized
A part of a molecule made from toluene when one hydrogen is removed from its methyl group
- Literature
A group of English writers, thinkers, and artists from the early 1900s with new social and artistic ideas
- Specialized
A group of plants or animals put together because they share traits
- Specialized
A part of a molecule where arsenic is attached to two small carbon-based groups
- Specialized
A type of atom like carbon, silicon, tin, or lead found in Group 14 of the periodic table
- Specialized
A group of atoms with one carbon, two oxygens and one hydrogen that makes a molecule acidic
- Specialized
A part of a molecule where carbon joins oxygen by a double bond, found in aldehydes and ketones
- Specialized
A set with a rule to combine items where the order does not matter
- Specialized
A small part of a molecule with one carbon joined to one nitrogen by three bonds written −CN
- Specialized
A small group of one carbon and one nitrogen atom, written -CN, found in many chemicals and often poisonous
- Specialized
A system dividing human blood into A, B, AB and O groups by A and B substances on red cells
- Specialized
A system that divides blood into A, B, AB, and O by A and B proteins on red blood cells
- Specialized
A small chemical part with atoms CH3CO that attaches to other molecules
- Specialized
An extinct group of small animals related to lemurs that lived 30 to 50 million years ago
- Specialized
A group of atoms with a nitrogen atom and two hydrogen atoms that joins other molecules
Surface Forms
Etymology
Group in mathematics keeps the same 'bunch' idea from the old root kruppa: it is a set of elements 'gathered' so they follow the same rules. That is why a mathematical group is treated as one organized unit.