groupmentn.
/ˈɡruːpm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈɡrupm(ə)nt/ 1.
a. gen. A group.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > group
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1837 Ladies' Compan. July 147/1 He should..arrange his groupments on the boards as never to disturb the illusion which false perspective must as a consequence destroy.
1887 A. M. Brown Treat. Animal Alkaloids ii. ii. 87 It corresponds to two molecules of kreatinine, plus the CNH groupment.
1903 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 357 From the clear inferiority of crowds those who make sociology consist in collective psychology draw a very unfavorable opinion of social groupments.
1941 Princeton Alumni Weekly 28 Nov. 18/1 The gargantuan groupment in evidence round and about consisted in part of aisle-custodians Rudie Kaufmann, Pete Rushton,..and Bill Neven.
2008 P. Bazzini & C. G. Wermuth in C. G. Wermuth Pract. Medicinal Chem. (ed. 3) xx. 448/2 The halogen Van der Waals radii give a good idea of the size of each atom or groupment.
b. U.S. Military. A group of military units.
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1917 Boston Sunday Globe 17 June 45/7 There are 18 cars to a section, four sections to a groupment and four groupments to a division or reserve.
1932 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 17 Sept. 2/6 Citizen soldiers divided into a national guard and various classifications of reserve and other groupments.
1969 M. Blumenson Salerno to Cassino xix. 322/1 Three groupments of corps artillery consisting of twelve firing battalions.
2005 E. Hammel Pacific Warriors iv. 68/2 Marine commanders learned to fight with increasingly larger groupments of troops—multiple companies, then multiple battalions, and finally multiple regiments.
2. Arrangement in a group or groups; grouping.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun]
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1837 Boston Jrnl. Nat. Hist. 1 57 They are mostly groups of crystals, assembled together by the law of groupment.
1888 Reynolds's Newspaper 25 Mar. 5/2 This new movement and groupment of the parties will..be accentuated in the forthcoming elections.
1933 Burlington Mag. Mar. 144/1 A student needs these for purposes of groupment and comparison.
1960 Amer. Soc. Limnol. & Oceanogr. 5 113/2 Many new ideas in classification and groupment are appearing.
2001 C. Baiocchi in M. Margenstern & Y. Rogozhin Machines, Computations, & Universality 7 With respect to Table 4, some different groupment will be needed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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