Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

Usage examples of grouping.

Here I scarcely miss, So masterly the grouping, so distinct The bacchanalian spirit, your rich brush, So vigorous in color.

With the grouping of the settlements into kingdoms and the consolidation of Mercia under Offa, Buckinghamshire was included in Mercia until, with the submission of that kingdom to the Northmen, it became part of the Danelaw.

Without attempting to enter into details which would be unbecoming to the modesty of a single volume, one may indicate what the other more important groupings were during the course of these months, and which were the columns that took part in them.

Assorted couches, tables, and chairs were arranged in three neat groupings.

Above the town there were groupings of houses and dovecotes, small white cubes set down on harsh gray earth, with long walls of rough gray stones forming terraces to hold whatever soil there was from slipping into the bay.

This is accomplished by grouping according to the ridge counts of loops and the ridge tracings of whorls.

It was not such a shore as is usually formed by nature, either by extending a vast carpet of sand, or by grouping masses of rock, but a beautiful border consisting of the most splendid trees.

Cold War also produced the neoconservative academic and bureaucratic grouping, whose members between 2001 and 2003 critically influenced the administration of George W.

Drummond could see the oilskinned figures grouping around her triple-mounted torpedo tubes, the purposeful way they were even now turning athwartships.

As they drove away, Sophie surveyed the Wilson homestead: two shacks and a sod hut, a grouping made only a little less desolate by the nearby creek with cottonwoods growing along it.

Labour Zionist splinter grouping with a strong Yiddishist orientation.

It is a science of human aggregations, of all possible family groupings, of neighbours and neighbourhood, of companies, associations, unions, secret and public societies, religious groupings, of common ends and intercourse, and of the methods of intercourse and collective decision that hold human groups together, and finally of government and the State.

She went quickly through each with the man to ensure he fully understood what her notes meant, agreeing at once to his suggestion of separate master databases for her three groupings, with the new comparison charts and individual murder case notes sub-programmed, compartmenting everything in precise sections with itemized indexed entry codes.

Sexual Selection -- On the generality of intercrosses between individuals of the same species -- Circumstances favourable and unfavourable to Natural Selection, namely, intercrossing, isolation, number of individuals -- Slow action -- Extinction caused by Natural Selection -- Divergence of Character, related to the diversity of inhabitants of any small area, and to naturalisation -- Action of Natural Selection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common parent -- Explains the Grouping of all organic beings.

This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in constellations.