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group
UK /ɡɹuːp/ US /ɡɹup/
noun 5verb 2
Definitions
noun
1
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
2
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
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).
3
An effective divisor on a curve.
4
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz group?
5
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
verb
1
To put together to form a group.
group the dogs by hair colour
2
To come together to form a group.
For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal.
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