groupe

Noun

group (plural groups)

1. (collective) A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
   • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   collection, set

2. A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
   • Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192
3. (archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
4. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
   • Did you see the new jazz group?

   Synonyms:

   band, ensemble

5. A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
6. A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

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