grouping

[ groo-ping ]

noun

1. an act or process of placing in groups.
2. a set or arrangement of persons or things in a group.

grouping

/ ˈɡruːpɪŋ /

noun

1. a planned arrangement of things, people, etc, within a group

Word History and Origins

Origin of grouping¹

1740–50; See group, -ing ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

Based on its Federated Learning of Cohorts API, Google was able to show that targeting interest-based cohorts would perform significantly better than random user groupings.

From Search Engine Land

As you keep cranking, you zoom out to increasingly larger groupings — clusters of billiard ball molecules, sectors of billiard balls, and so on.

From Quanta Magazine

The key was to simulate groupings dense enough that stellar flybys happen regularly, but not so dense that the encounters happen too often and destroy disks before planets can grow up.

From Science News

Parents can create individual profiles for each child, customized to one of several age groupings, like preschool, younger and older — the latter meant for the tween crowd.

From TechCrunch

Segments that perform or convert at a high level indicate interest from that grouping of potential customers and, therefore, are worth a higher investment through the use of bid modifiers.

From Search Engine Watch

The show is arranged by themes, but this mostly serves as a useful grouping exercise.

From The Daily Beast

The monks divide up the thousands of corpses by gender, age, and profession, grouping them in separate chambers.

From The Daily Beast

One grouping of relapses came around 18 months after surgery, and a second smaller one cropped up around 60 months.

From The Daily Beast

Grouping them by geography and socioeconomic status (Real Housewives) is another.

From The Daily Beast

And grouping them by geography, socioeconomic status, and ethno-national background (Shahs of Sunset) is yet another.

From The Daily Beast

In estivo-autumnal fever the regular grouping, while usually present at first, is soon lost, thus causing "irregular malaria."

From Project Gutenberg

A dark moon has joined this celestial grouping, and is now swinging in an orbit about the earth.

From Project Gutenberg

The selection and grouping of these objects is spoken of as the composition of the picture.

From Project Gutenberg

But his pictures had no elaborate grouping, which is one of the excellences of modern art.

From Project Gutenberg

His style was modified by the contemplation of the sculptures of Phidias, and he taught the true method of grouping.

From Project Gutenberg

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