Definitions for groupings

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groupings group·ing

Spelling: [groo-ping]

IPA: /ˈgru pɪŋ/

Groupings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 322 anagrams from letters in groupings (gginoprsu).

Definitions for groupings

noun

1. an act or process of placing in groups.
2. a set or arrangement of persons or things in a group.
3. any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation:
4. a number of persons or things ranged or considered together as being related in some way.
5. Also called radical. Chemistry. two or more atoms specifically arranged, as the hydroxyl group, –OH. Compare free radical.
6. Linguistics. (in the classification of related languages within a family) a category of a lower order than a subbranch and of a higher order than a subgroup: any grouping of languages, whether it is made on the basis of geography, genetic relationship, or something else.
7. Geology. a division of stratified rocks comprising two or more formations.
8. Military. Army. a flexible administrative and tactical unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters. Air Force. an administrative and operational unit subordinate to a wing, usually composed of two or more squadrons.
9. Music. a section of an orchestra comprising the instruments of the same class.
10. Art. a number of figures or objects shown in an arrangement together.
11. Mathematics. an algebraic system that is closed under an associative operation, as multiplication or addition, and in which there is an identity element that, on operating on another element, leaves the second element unchanged, and in which each element has corresponding to it a unique element that, on operating on the first, results in the identity element.
12. Grammar (chiefly British) . a phrase:

verb (used with object)

1. to place or associate together in a group, as with others.
2. to arrange in or form into a group or groups.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a group.
2. to be part of a group.

Origin of groupings

1740-50; See group, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for groupings

Think of the variety of costume this means, and grouping and lights.

Compare the grouping in the preceding sentence, in the last sentence of Par.

How does the grouping here affect the Pause and the Inflection?

It is not formed by grouping together any rights and any duties.

One grouping of relapses came around 18 months after surgery, and a second smaller one cropped up around 60 months.

She had Maezza spend half an hour painting wooden pawns and grouping them into families.

The monks divide up the thousands of corpses by gender, age, and profession, grouping them in separate chambers.

grouping them by geography and socioeconomic status (Real Housewives) is another.

And grouping them by geography, socioeconomic status, and ethno-national background (Shahs of Sunset) is yet another.

The grouping is good, and the principal figure has the air of a gentleman.