grouping en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/
Meanings
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(countable) A collection of things or people united as a group.
In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- (countable, uncountable) Combining into groups.
- (countable, uncountable) Shot grouping.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| groupings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
intragrouping · phenogrouping · supergrouping · family grouping · phylogrouping · intergrouping · platoon grouping · ability grouping
Translations (16)
pl bateria (a collection of things or people) · nl groepering (a collection of things or people) · ga grúpáil (a collection of things or people) · fi kasa (shot grouping) · es agrupación (the action of the verb to group) · id pengelompokan (the action of the verb to group) · de Eingruppierung (the action of the verb to group) · no gruppering (a collection of things or people) · es agrupamiento (the action of the verb to group) · pt agrupamento (a collection of things or people) · fr groupement (a collection of things or people) · ca agrupament (the action of the verb to group) · es agrupación (a collection of things or people) · mi tōpūtanga (a collection of things or people) · de Gruppierung (a collection of things or people) · fr groupement (the action of the verb to group)