According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
GROUP
group, grouping
(noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
group, mathematical group
(noun) a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
group, radical, chemical group
(noun) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
group
(verb) arrange into a group or groups; “Can you group these shapes together?”
group, aggroup
(verb) form a group or group together
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
group (plural groups)
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
(geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
(chemistry) A functional group.
(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
(military) An air force formation.
(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
(computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc, notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
(business) A commercial organization.
Synonyms
• (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
• (people who perform music together): band, ensemble
• See also group
Hypernyms
• (in group theory): monoid
Hyponyms
• Abelian group
• encounter group
• factor group
• free group
• fundamental group
• general linear group
• girl group
• kinematic group
• Lie group
• Local Group
• minority group
• moving group
• p-group
• pop group
• quotient group
• simple group
• subgroup
• triangle group
• von Dyck group
Verb
group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)
(transitive) To put together to form a group.
(intransitive) To come together to form a group.
Synonyms
• (put together to form a group): amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up; see also round up
• (come together to form a group): assemble, begather, foregather, throng; see also assemble
Source: Wiktionary
Group, n. Etym: [F groupe, It. gruppo, groppo, cluster, bunch, packet, group; of G. origin: cf. G. krepf craw, crop, tumor, bunch. See Crop, n.]
1. A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
2. An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
3. (Biol.)
Definition: A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
4. (Mus.)
Definition: A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems;
– sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
Group, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grouped; p. pr. & vb. n. Grouping.] Etym: [Cf. F. grouper. See Group, n.]
Definition: To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of. The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects. Prior. Grouped columns (Arch.), three or moro columns placed upon the same pedestal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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