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