n.
[
treated as sing. or pl.]
- a number of people or things located, gathered, or classed together.
- a number of musicians who play popular music together.
- Chemistry a set of elements occupying a column in the periodic table and having broadly similar properties.
- Chemistry a combination of atoms having a recognizable identity in a number of compounds.
- Mathematics a set of elements, together with an associative binary operation, which contains an inverse for each element and an identity element.
- a division of an air force, usually consisting of two or more stations.
v.
place in or form a group or groups.
Derivative
Etymology
C17: from Fr. groupe, from Ital. gruppo, of Gmc origin; rel. to crop.