Celerity vs. Group

Celeritynoun

Speed, swiftness.

Groupnoun

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 group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.’;

Celeritynoun

(oceanography) The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves).

Groupnoun

(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

Celeritynoun

(hydrology) The speed with which a perturbation to the flow propagates through the flow domain.

Groupnoun

An effective divisor on a curve.

Celeritynoun

The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.

Groupnoun

A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

‘Did you see the new jazz group?’;

Celeritynoun

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

‘Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight.’;

Groupnoun

(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

Celeritynoun

a rate that is rapid

Groupnoun

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

Groupnoun

(chemistry) A functional group.

‘Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.’;

Groupnoun

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

Groupnoun

(military) An air force formation.

Groupnoun

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

Groupnoun

(computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

Groupnoun

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

Groupnoun

(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

Groupnoun

(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.

Groupnoun

(business) A commercial organization.

Groupverb

(transitive) To put together to form a group.

‘group the dogs by hair colour’;

Groupverb

(intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Groupnoun

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

Groupnoun

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

Groupnoun

A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

Groupnoun

A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; - sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

Groupverb

To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

‘The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects.’;

Groupnoun

any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

Groupnoun

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

Groupnoun

a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

Groupverb

arrange into a group or groups;

‘Can you group these shapes together?’;

Groupverb

form a group or group together