English noun: grouping |
1. | grouping any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
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| Synonyms | group |
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| Broader (hypernym) | abstract entity, abstraction |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | accumulation, actinide, actinoid, actinon, aggregation, arrangement, assemblage, association, biological group, biotic community, circuit, citizenry, cloud, collection, community, edition, electron shell, ethnic group, ethnos, halogen, hoi polloi, human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, kingdom, lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, man, mankind, mass, masses, multitude, people, people, people, population, race, rare earth, rare-earth element, sainthood, scheme, series, social group, straggle, subgroup, swarm, system, the great unwashed, varna, world |
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| Instance hyponym | Great Lakes |
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2. | grouping (act) the activity of putting things together in groups |
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| Broader (hypernym) | activity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | aggregation, assembling, assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, collecting, collection, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, pairing, phrasing, punctuation, sorting |
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3. | grouping (cognition) a system for classifying things into groups |
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| Synonyms | pigeonholing |
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| Broader (hypernym) | classification system |
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