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grouping

grouping

20 2.5
Putting people and things together because they are similar or have the same purpose
  • noun
  • /ˈɡruːpɪŋ/
translation icon : agrupamiento
  • The groups were selected purposively to be representative of varied gender groupings and MPCE levels.
  • ability grouping
  • grouping variable
  • grouping strategy

Meaning what are the groupings of threes and twos are in this?

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Examples

  • The school practices this grouping with the subjects of reading and math.

    Academic text (2008)
  • It refers to the grouping of children based on expected performance.

  • And so the first time they came up with a food grouping, there were five food groups.

  • No ability or performance grouping took place in the placement of the students.

    Academic text (2015)
  • For the teachers in this study, grouping was based on intuition, not assessment data per se.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Some descriptions were reworded to create consistency for better grouping of the descriptions.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Travel history was categorized by using the regional groupings provided in the 2006 Canadian census.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Our analysis of the factors resulted in four opinion groupings that represented four different principal and counselor viewpoints.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Aboriginal people comprised six hundred tribal groupings, each with its own language and dialect.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The teacher used a color-coded system for the grouping of students based on their learning styles.

Synonyms

formation
vsgrouping
122 3.6

An arrangement of people or things in a pattern for a purpose

is the process of putting things into categories based on shared traits
sorting
vsgrouping
22 2.0

A way of arranging things into groups by shared features

is the overall act or system of arranging items by common features
classification
vsgrouping
19 3.7

The process of putting things into groups by shared features

is the general process rather than the formal scientific system
aggregation
vsgrouping
11 6.1

A group of things joined together as one whole

is an active process of arranging items into categories by shared traits
categorization
vsgrouping
  • Specialized
8 4.4

Putting things, people, or ideas into groups because they are similar

is the general act or system of arranging things by shared traits or purpose
clustering
vsgrouping
6 4.1

A group of similar things close together

is the broader system of placing items by shared purpose or characteristics
1 8.0

Dividing something into separate parts to keep things organized

is the general system of arranging items by shared qualities, not necessarily isolating parts
bucketing
vsgrouping
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Putting items into groups that have the same features

is the general process of arranging items for purpose or analysis

Antonyms

17 5.2

The spreading of things over a wide area, for example seeds or people

individualization
  • Specialized
7.7

Seeing one person or thing as different from others

How Organized

taxonomy
  • Specialized
9 6.7
sorting
22 2.0
grouping
20 2.5
collection
759 1.4

Surface Forms

grouping singular
groupings plural

Morphology

grouping = group (transparent) = group + ing

A standard nominalization/gerund formed by adding '-ing' to the verb 'group', yielding an action/process noun.

Etymology

Grouping comes from the simple word group (to 'gather' or 'collect') and the ending -ing, which turns a verb into an action. So grouping means the action or system of putting people or things together because they share something.