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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grouping \Group"ing\ (gr[=oo]p"[i^]ng), noun (Fine Arts) The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Group \Group\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Grouped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grouping}.] [Cf. F. grouper. See {Group}, noun] 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. --Prior. {Grouped columns} (Arch.), three or more columns placed upon the same pedestal.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grouping
noun
1: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit [syn: {group}]
2: the activity of putting things together in groups
3: a system for classifying things into groups [syn: {pigeonholing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
182 Moby Thesaurus words for "grouping": Bund, Rochdale cooperative, age group, alliance, analysis, appraisal, arrangement, assemblage, assessment, association, assortment, atmosphere, axis, balance, band, batch, battalion, bevy, bloc, blood, body, bracket, branch, brigade, brushwork, bunch, cabal, cast, caste, cataloging, categorization, category, clan, class, classification, clique, clump, cluster, coalition, codification, cohort, college, color, combination, combine, common market, company, complement, composition, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, copse, corps, coterie, council, covey, credit union, crew, crop, crowd, culling, customs union, design, detachment, detail, division, draftsmanship, economic community, estate, evaluation, faction, factoring, federation, filing, fleet, free trade area, gang, gauging, gradation, grade, grading, group, groupment, grove, hassock, head, heading, identification, in-group, indexing, junta, kin, knot, label, league, level, line, lot, machine, mess, mob, movement, order, out-group, outfit, pack, painterliness, partnership, party, peer group, perspective, phalanx, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, placement, platoon, political machine, position, posse, predicament, race, ranging, rank, ranking, rating, regiment, ring, rubric, salon, screening, section, selection, sept, set, shading, shadow, shock, sifting, sifting out, slew, society, sorting, sorting out, squad, stable, station, status, stook, strain, stratification, stratum, string, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, subordination, tabulation, taxonomy, team, technique, thicket, tier, title, tone, treatment, triage, tribe, troop, troupe, tuft, tussock, typology, union, values, weighing, wing, winnowing, wisp
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