Group
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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
- Group action (sociology)
- Group behaviour
- Groups of people, a description of various different human groups
- Group dynamics
- Social group, a sub-set of a culture or of a society
- Interest group
- language family, also known as "Language group"
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
- Groups and clusters of galaxies, a small number of galaxies near each other
- Local Group, the group containing the Milky Way Galaxy
Other
- Group delay and phase delay
- Group (optics), a set of lenses stacked together
- Group (stratigraphy), in geology, a lithostratigraphical unit; a group consists of formations, or rock strata.
Military
- Army group
- Group (air force), an air force formation
- Group Captain
Computing and the internet
- Group (computing), a collection of users or other objects
- Group editor, a program that allows many people to edit a shared document over a computer network
- Newsgroup
Other uses
- Breed Groups (dog), the Group or category to which breeds of dogs are assigned by kennel clubs
- Business group, a collection of legally distinct business entities
- Group (auto racing), a category of car allowed to compete in auto racing.
- Group insurance covering people with common characteristics
- Group (travel), a set of individuals traveling together
- musical ensemble or band