Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

extended care facility
a medical institution that provides prolonged care (as in cases of prolonged illness or rehabilitation from acute illness)
 
metric space
a set of points such that for every pair of points there is a nonnegative real number called their distance that is symmetric and satisfies the triangle inequality
 
trade union
an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
 
department of history
the academic department responsible for teaching history
 
pastorate
pastors collectively
 
calendar
a tabular array of the days (usually for one year)
 
revolutionary group
a political unit organized to promote revolution
 
square matrix
a matrix with the same number of rows and columns
 
claque
a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance
 
field
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
 
gens
family based on male descent
 
naturalism
an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
 
deaf
people who have severe hearing impairments
 
Inquisition
a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy
 
brethren
(plural) the lay members of a male religious order
 
ethnos
people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
 
convocation
a group gathered in response to a summons
 
totem
a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
 
American Legion
the largest organization of United States war veterans
 
Small Business Administration
an independent agency of the United States government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government contracts
 
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