grouping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -uːpɪŋ

Verb

grouping

1. present participle and gerund of group

Noun

grouping (countable and uncountable, plural groupings)

1. (countable) A collection of things or people united as a group.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

     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.

2. (countable, uncountable) Combining into groups.
3. Shot grouping.

Derived terms

• ability grouping
• family grouping
• intergrouping
• intragrouping
• phenogrouping
• phylogrouping
• platoon grouping
• supergrouping

Translations

a collection of things or people

• Dutch: groepering (nl) f
• French: groupement (fr) m
• German: Gruppierung (de) f
• Irish: grúpáil f
• Maori: tōpūtanga
• Norwegian: gruppering m or f
• Polish: bateria (pl) f
• Portuguese: agrupamento (pt) m

the action of the verb to group

• Catalan: agrupament (ca) m
• French: groupement (fr) m
• German: Eingruppierung f
• Indonesian: pengelompokan (id)
• Spanish: agrupamiento (es) m

shot grouping

• Finnish: kasa (fi)

Anagrams

• proguing