What is group?

  • (noun): Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit.
    Synonyms: grouping
    See also — Additional definitions below

Group

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

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U2
... Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr ... Throughout the group's musical pursuits, they have maintained a sound built on melodic instrumentals, highlighted by The Edge's timbrally varied guitar sounds and Bono's expressive vocals ... of their earnest image and musical direction, the group reinvented themselves with their 1991 hit album Achtung Baby and the accompanying Zoo TV Tour ...
Group Homomorphism
... In mathematics, given two groups (G, *) and (H, ·), a group homomorphism from (G, *) to (H, ·) is a function h G → H such that for all u and v in G it holds that where the group operation ... maps inverses to inverses in the sense that Hence one can say that h "is compatible with the group structure" ... A more recent trend is to write group homomorphisms on the right of their arguments, omitting brackets, so that h(x) becomes simply x h ...
Yuppie - History
... newspaper columnist Bob Greene published a story about a business networking group founded in 1982 by the former radical leader Jerry Rubin, formerly of the Youth ... The term was then used to describe a political demographic group of socially liberal but fiscally conservative voters favoring his candidacy ... to advertise to farmers, Hispanics or Yuppies, no one likes to be neatly lumped into some group" ...
8 Ball Bunny - Censorship
... American natives is edited to remove the part where one of the natives runs to warn the group of "bwana" Humphrey Bogart coming and the group scattering ... a frozen shot of Bogart's feet while the sound of the group muttering and fleeing was heard ...
67th Network Warfare Wing - Units
67th Network Warfare Group, (Lackland Air Force Base, Texas) The group tailors multi-source intelligence, electronic warfare and communications security products for ... The group also participates with Air Force Special Operations Command, providing customized intelligence products for their missions. 26th Network Operations Group, (Lackland Air Force Base, Texas) The 26th Network Operations Group employs four operational squadrons worldwide, providing Air Force enterprise network ...

More definitions of "group":

  • (noun): (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule.
    Synonyms: radical, chemical group
  • (noun): A set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse.
    Synonyms: mathematical group
  • (verb): Arrange into a group or groups.
    Example: "Can you group these shapes together?"
  • (verb): Form a group or group together.
    Synonyms: aggroup

Famous quotes containing the word group:

    Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one’s own cherished beliefs.
    Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    We often overestimate the influence of a peer group on our teenager. While the peer group is most influential in matters of taste and preference, we parents are most influential in more abiding matters of standards, beliefs, and values.
    David Elkind (20th century)

    With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
    Francis Aungier, Pakenham, 7th Earl Longford (b. 1905)