Group vs. Individual: What's the Difference?
Group and Individual Definitions
Group
An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation
A group of dinner guests.
A group of buildings near the road.
Individual
Of or relating to an individual, especially a single human
Individual consciousness.
Group
A set of two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture.
Individual
By or for one person
Individual work.
An individual portion.
Group
A number of individuals or things considered or classed together because of similarities
A small group of supporters across the country.
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Individual
Existing as a distinct entity; separate
Individual drops of rain.
Group
(Linguistics) A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family.
Individual
Marked by or expressing individuality; distinctive or individualistic
An individual way of dressing.
Group
A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.
Individual
Special; particular
Each variety of melon has its individual flavor and texture.
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Group
A unit of two or more squadrons in the US Air Force, smaller than a wing.
Individual
Serving to identify or set apart
"There was nothing individual about him except a deep scar ... across his right cheek" (Rebecca West).
Group
Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.
Individual
A single human considered apart from a society or community
The rights of the individual.
Group
A column in the periodic table of the elements.
Individual
A human regarded as a distinctive or unique personality
Always treated her clients as individuals.
Felt he was quite an individual.
Group
(Geology) A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.
Individual
A single organism as distinguished from a species, community, or group.
Group
(Mathematics) A set, together with a binary associative operation, such that the set is closed under the operation, the set contains an identity element for the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element with respect to the operation. The integers form a group under the operation of ordinary addition.
Individual
A member of a collection or set; a specimen.
Group
Of, relating to, constituting, or being a member of a group
A group discussion.
A group effort.
Individual
A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
He is an unusual individual.
Group
To place or arrange in a group
Grouped the children according to height.
Individual
(legal) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
Group
To belong to or form a group
The soldiers began to group on the hillside.
Individual
An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
Group
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.
Individual
(statistics) An element belonging to a population.
Group
(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
Individual
Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
Group
An effective divisor on a curve.
Individual
Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
Individual personal pension; individual cream cakes
Group
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz group?
Individual
Not divisible without losing its identity.
Group
(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
Individual
Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance.
United as one individual soul.
Group
(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
Individual
Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
Group
(chemistry) A functional group.
Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
Individual
A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual.
That individuals die, his will ordains.
Group
(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
Individual
An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
Group
(military) An air force formation.
Individual
A human being;
There was too much for one person to do
Group
(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
Individual
A single organism
Group
(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
Individual
Being or characteristic of a single thing or person;
Individual drops of rain
Please mark the individual pages
They went their individual ways
Group
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
Individual
Separate and distinct from others of the same kind;
Mark the individual pages
On a case-by-case basis
Group
(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.
Individual
Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing;
An individual serving
Separate rooms
Single occupancy
A single bed
Group
(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.
Individual
Concerning one person exclusively;
We all have individual cars
Each room has a private bath
Group
(business) A commercial organization.
Group
(transitive) To put together to form a group.
Group the dogs by hair colour
Group
(intransitive) To come together to form a group.
Group
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.
Group
An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
Group
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.
Group
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.
Group
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.
Group
Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Group
(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
Group
A set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
Group
Arrange into a group or groups;
Can you group these shapes together?
Group
Form a group or group together
