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Pronunciation: [ɡɹˈuːpɪŋz] (IPA)

Groupings refer to the act of creating or forming different combinations of entities to classify them under a common category. There are several synonyms for the term "groupings." Some of these synonyms include categorization, classification, arrangement, organization, assembly, compilation, and clustering. Categorization refers to grouping entities based on similar characteristics, while classification refers to the ordering of entities based on common traits. Arrangement pertains to the organization of objects or entities in an array or specified pattern. Organization refers to the systematic grouping of entities which creates its structure. Assembly refers to the coming together of entities, while compilation means gathering entities together such as in a list. Clustering means grouping by proximity or similarity.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Groupings

Nerve knots, or groupings of nerve cells, forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
The groupings show how rapidly the disease spreads from one household to another in the same locality.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
There were now two great groupings of the chief political parties.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright

Famous quotes with Groupings

  • In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.
    Bruce Beresford
  • When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
    Juan Goytisolo
  • The total institutions of our society can be linked in five rough groupings. First, there are institutions established to care for persons felt to be both incapable and harmless; these are the homes for the blind, the aged, the orphaned, and the indigent. Second, there are places established to care for persons felt to be incapable of looking after themselves and a threat to the community, albeit an unintended one: TB sanitaria, mental hospitals, and leprosaria. A third type of total institution is organised to protect the community against what are felt to be intentional dangers to it, with the welfare of the persons thus sequestered not the immediate issue: jails, penitentiaries, P.O.W. camps, and concentration camps. Fourth, there are institutions purportedly established the better to pursue some work-like tasks and justifying themselves only on these instrumental grounds: army barracks, ships, boarding schools, work camps, colonial compounds, and large mansions from the point of view of those who live in the servants' quarters. Finally, there are those establishments designed as retreats from the world even while often serving also as training stations for the religious; examples are abbeys, monasteries, convents, and other cloisters.
    Erving Goffman
  • The classifications of 'early' and 'middle-period' dialogues rest squarely on the interpretative theses concerning the progress of Plato's work, philosophically and literarily, outlined above. As such, they are an unsuitable basis for bringing anyone to the reading of these works. To use them in that way is to announce in advance the results of a certain interpretation of the dialogues and to canonize that interpretation under the guise of a presumably objective order of composition—when in fact no such order is objectively known. And it thereby risks prejudicing an unwary reader against the fresh, individual reading that these works demand. For these reasons, I urge readers not to undertake the study of Plato’s works holding in mind the customary chronological groupings of 'early', 'middle', and 'late' dialogues. It is safe to recognize only the group of six late dialogues. Even for these, it is better to relegate thoughts about chronology to the secondary position they deserve and to concentrate on the literary and philosophical content of the works, taken on their own and in relation to the others.
    Plato
  • To one extent or another, then, you learn to constantly monitor your behavior, so that it conforms to the established criteria set up for sane or rational experience. You are social creatures, as the animals are. Despite many of your cherished, erroneous beliefs, your nations exist as the result of cooperation, not competition, as do all social groupings.
    Jane Roberts

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