GROUPING

group, grouping

(noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

grouping

(noun) the activity of putting things together in groups

grouping, pigeonholing

(noun) a system for classifying things into groups

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

grouping (plural groupings)

A collection of things or people united as a group.

The action of the verb to group.

Shot grouping.

Verb

grouping

present participle of group

Anagrams

• proguing

Source: Wiktionary

Group"ing, n. (Fine Arts)

Definition: The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.

GROUP

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