Added 1 October 2026
group
/ɡɹuːp/ noun
In Latin: circulus, grex, globus Coined: 1830 Wiktionary
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A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group
- A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- An effective divisor on a curve.
verb
Origin
From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”). In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830. Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup. Compare Persian گروه.
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