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Group

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

Pronunciation: /ɡɹuːp/, /ɡɹup/

What “Group” means

Noun

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
An effective divisor on a curve.
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

Verb

To put together to form a group.
To come together to form a group.
To eliminate in the group stage of a competition.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”). In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830. Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup. Compare Persian گروه.

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