Group vs. Individual

Group vs. Individual — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Group and Individual

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

Individualnoun

A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

He is an unusual individual.

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.

Individualnoun

(legal) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.

Groupnoun

An effective divisor on a curve.

Individualnoun

An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.

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Groupnoun

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

Did you see the new jazz group?

Individualnoun

(statistics) An element belonging to a population.

Groupnoun

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

Individualadjective

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.

Groupnoun

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

Individualadjective

Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

individual personal pension; individual cream cakes
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Groupnoun

(chemistry) A functional group.

Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.

Individualadjective

Not divisible without losing its identity.

Groupnoun

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

Individualnoun

a human being;

there was too much for one person to do

Groupnoun

(military) An air force formation.

Individualnoun

a single organism

Groupnoun

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

Individualadjective

being or characteristic of a single thing or person;

individual drops of rainplease mark the individual pagesthey went their individual ways

Groupnoun

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

Individualadjective

separate and distinct from others of the same kind;

mark the individual pageson a case-by-case basis

Groupnoun

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

Individualadjective

characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing;

an individual servingseparate roomssingle occupancya single bed

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.

Individualadjective

concerning one person exclusively;

we all have individual carseach room has a private bath

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

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