grouping
A collection of things or people united as a groupA collection of things or people united as a group.
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» This little grouping of chairs looks like a horse.
papabear · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(countable)A collection of things or people united as a group.
Gruppierung, Eingruppierung
(countable, uncountable)Combining into groups.
a system for classifying things into groups
(countable, uncountable)Shot grouping.
Examples
16 sentencesThis little grouping of chairs looks like a horse.
Skin colors, languages, and religions are not racial groupings.
deHautfarbe, Sprache und Religion sind keine Rassenmerkmale. — brauchinet
Skin colors, languages, and religions are not genetic groupings.
Changing the grouping of addends does not change the sum.
Changing the grouping of factors does not change the product.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 2
Forms
plural: groupingsSynonyms
2 synonyms- a system for classifying things into groups:pigeonholing
- any number of entities (members) considered as a unit:group
Word family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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