Dictionary entry details
• GROUPING (noun)
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...):
abstraction (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grouping"):
human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world (all of the living human inhabitants of the earth)
sainthood (saints collectively)
citizenry; people (the body of citizens of a state or country)
population (a group of organisms of the same species populating 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)
subgroup (a distinct and often subordinate group within a group)
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)
race (people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock)
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)
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"):
aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)
assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)
phrasing (the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line)
punctuation (the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases)
pairing (the act of grouping things or people in pairs)
sorting (grouping by class or kind or size)
Meaning:
A system for classifying things into groups
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
pigeonholing; grouping
Hypernyms ("grouping" is a kind of...):
classification system (a system for classifying things)
