GROUPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grouping mean? 

• GROUPING (noun)
  The noun GROUPING has 3 senses:

1. any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

2. the activity of putting things together in groups

3. a system for classifying things into groups

  Familiarity information: GROUPING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Synonyms:

group; grouping

Hypernyms ("grouping" is a kind of...):

abstract entity; abstraction (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grouping"):

arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)

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)

lanthanide; lanthanoid; lanthanon; rare-earth element; rare earth (any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71))

actinide; actinoid; actinon (any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103)

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)

scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)

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)

varna ((Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis))

hoi polloi; mass; masses; multitude; people; the great unwashed (the common people generally)

population (a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area)

citizenry; people (the body of citizens of a state or country)

sainthood (saints collectively)

subgroup (a distinct and often subordinate group within a group)

cloud; swarm (a group of many things in the air or on the ground)

race (people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock)

ethnic group; ethnos (people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture)

electron shell (a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom)

edition (all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time)

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

social group (people sharing some social relation)

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

biotic community; community ((ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other)

biological group (a group of plants or animals)

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)

kingdom (a basic group of natural objects)

straggle (a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons))

human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world (all of the living human inhabitants of the earth)

Instance hyponyms:

Great Lakes (a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The activity of putting things together in groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("grouping" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grouping"):

pairing (the act of grouping things or people in pairs)

punctuation (the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases)

phrasing (the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line)

assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)

aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)

sorting (grouping by class or kind or size)

Derivation:

group (arrange into a group or groups)

group (form a group or group together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A system for classifying things into groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

grouping; pigeonholing

Hypernyms ("grouping" is a kind of...):

classification system (a system for classifying things)

 Context examples 

A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; an organization with one or a few things at the top and with several things below each other thing.

(Hierarchy, NCI Thesaurus)

A grouping of hematopoietic cells derived from monocytes.

(Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A grouping of joints based on their anatomical location.

(Joint by Site, NCI Thesaurus)

A grouping of those animals that are commonly used as subjects in laboratory research.

(Laboratory Animal, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-taxonomic grouping of microaerophilic, Gram negative, spindle shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria and the genus Helicobacter.

(Helicobacter rappini, NCI Thesaurus)

Groupings or subdivisions of an organization, such as departments, may also be considered as organizations where there is a need to identify them.

(Health Care Organization, NCI Thesaurus)

A grouping of things based on shared common attributes.

(Class, NCI Thesaurus)

A grouping of a number of similar things.

(Cluster, NCI Thesaurus)

Methods for grouping objects into subsets such that those within each cluster are more closely related to one another than objects assigned to different clusters.

(Cluster Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

Of the six major groupings of DNA viruses four contain members which are actually or potentially oncogenic: the Adenoviridae, the Herpesviridae, the Papovaviridae, and the Poxviridae.

(DNA Tumor Virus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)