grouping

UK/ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/US/ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,306 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: groupings

A grouping is a set of things put together by some shared feature. A political grouping, the main groupings, a loose grouping.

It is a looser word than group and is used where the members did not choose each other, which is why political reporting favours it. It also names the act of sorting things that way.

Definitions of grouping

1noungroupingA set of things put together by some shared feature.B2+
“The new political grouping brings together several small green parties.”

grouping is a set.

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grouping in the wild

The choice of symbol can also affect the choice of symbol for the thousands separator used in digit grouping.
Decimal separator
The related term "raven" is not linked scientifically to any certain trait but is rather a general grouping for larger-sized species of Corvus.
Crow
Portions of that grouping, like Canadian County, are entirely west of I-35.
Western Oklahoma
Though the grouping is often encountered in the literature, it is an areal grouping, not a genetic grouping.
Central Algonquian languages
Within the Central Algonquian grouping, Potawatomi and Ojibwe, also known as Chippewa, are closely related and are generally grouped together as an Ojibwa-Potawatomi sub-branch.
Central Algonquian languages

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