grouping

B1
US /ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/
noun verb Freq #35773

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A collection of things or people united as a group.

    In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges.

  2. 2
    noun

    any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

  3. 3
    noun

    the activity of putting things together in groups

  4. 4
    noun

    a system for classifying things into groups

  5. 5
    verb

    present participle and gerund of group

  6. 6
    noun

    Combining into groups.

  7. 7
    noun

    Shot grouping.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 noun · any number of entities... group
4 noun · a system for classifying... pigeonholing
Word family
Derived forms intergroupingintragroupingphenogroupingphylogroupingsupergrouping

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