grouping

Noun
  1. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit (synset 100031563)
    is a type of: abstract entity, abstraction - a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
    subtypes:
    • human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world - all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
    • arrangement - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging
    • straggle - a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons)
    • kingdom - a basic group of natural objects
    • biological group - a group of plants or animals
    • biotic community, community - (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
    • people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
    • social group - people sharing some social relation
    • accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
    • edition - all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time
    • electron shell - a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom
    • ethnic group, ethnos - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
    • race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock
    • association - (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species
    • cloud, swarm - a group of many things in the air or on the ground
    • subgroup - a distinct and often subordinate group within a group
    • sainthood - saints collectively
    • citizenry, people - the body of citizens of a state or country
    • population - a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
    • hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed - the common people generally
    • varna - (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)
    • circuit - (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals
    • scheme, system - a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
    • series - a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection
    • actinide, actinoid, actinon - any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103
    • lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare earth, rare-earth element - any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71)
    • halogen - any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions
    specific instances: great lakes - a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America
    same as: group
  2. The activity of putting things together in groups (synset 101014302)
    is a type of: activity - any specific behavior
    subtypes:
  3. A system for classifying things into groups (synset 105741035)
    is a type of: classification system - a system for classifying things
    same as: pigeonholing

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