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Group can refer to:

Business

  • (Group Definition: A small number of people with correlative talents committed to a common purpose, specific goals, a similar working approach as well as evenly distributed accountability among members.
  • Business group, a legal entity comprising several companies

Sociology

Mathematics

  • Group (mathematics), a set together with a binary operation satisfying certain algebraic conditions
    • Group theory, the study of groups
    • Group action, a way of describing the symmetries of objects using groups
    • Group isomorphism, a one-to-one correspondence (function) between two groups which respects the given group operations
    • Group object, a kind of generalization of a group which is built on more complicated structures than sets

Science

Chemistry

  • Functional group, a functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule
  • Periodic table group, a column in the periodic table of chemical elements

Biology

  • Group, or cultivar Group (formerly, up to 2004, "cultivar-group"), is formal classification category in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP)
  • Group selection, in evolutionary biology, the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow upon groups of organisms

Cosmology

Other

Military

Computing and the internet

Other uses

See also