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group
English
Alternative forms
- groop (non-standard)
- groupe (obsolete)
Etymology
From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”), Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”), Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.
Pronunciation
- enPR: gro?op, IPA(key): /??u?p/
- Rhymes: -u?p
Noun
group (plural groups)
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,
- Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
- 1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112,
- In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).
- 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,
- In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).
- 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,
- (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- (chemistry) A functional group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- (military) An air force formation.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (business) A commercial organization.
Synonyms
- (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
- (people who perform music together): band, ensemble
- See also Thesaurus:group
Hypernyms
- (in group theory): monoid
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- subgroup
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ?????
- ? Japanese: ???? (gur?pu)
- ? Korean: ?? (geurup)
- ? Tongan: kulupu
Translations
References
- group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)
- (transitive) To put together to form a group.
- group the dogs by hair colour
- (intransitive) To come together to form a group.
Synonyms
- (put together to form a group): amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
- (come together to form a group): assemble, begather, foregather, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble
Translations
Further reading
- group in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- group in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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fellowship
English
Etymology
From Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, fela?schyp, equivalent to fellow +? -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr (“fellowship”). Compare Icelandic félagsskapur (“companionship, company, community”), Danish fællesskab (“fellowship”), Norwegian fellesskap (“fellowship”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f?l???p/, /?f?l????p/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?l???p/, /?f?lo???p/
- Hyphenation: fel?low?ship
Noun
fellowship (countable and uncountable, plural fellowships)
- A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
- (dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
- A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
- A merit-based scholarship.
- A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research; this may also be called a postdoc.
- (medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.
- (arithmetic, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
Translations
Verb
fellowship (third-person singular simple present fellowships, present participle fellowshipping or fellowshiping, simple past and past participle fellowshipped or fellowshiped)
- (transitive) To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use.
- The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor family.
- c. 1524, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (editor), The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum, first edition (1879), anthology, published for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., translation of Gesta Romanorum by anon., xxxiv. 135, (Harl. MS. c.1440), page 135:
- Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem.
- Then Peace saw her sisters all in accord...she turned again; for when contentions and strife were ceased, then Peace was fellowshipped among them.
- Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem.
- (intransitive, now chiefly religious, especially in Canada, US) To join in fellowship; to associate with.
- The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.
- After she got married, she stopped fellowshipping with the singles in our church.
- c. 1410, Hans Kurath quoting Nicholas Love (translator), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, fifth edition (1989), quoted in Middle English Dictionary, translation of Meditationes Vitae Christi by Pseudo-Bonaventura, (Gibbs MS. c.1400), page 463:
- Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped [Aldh felischippede] with hem.
- Our lord Jesus came in the manner of a pilgrim and fellowshipped with them.
- Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped [Aldh felischippede] with hem.
Derived terms
- unfellowship
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