An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
(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.
(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.
“Thus, his goal is to save time and make the exposition less tedious, but the grouping of animals into families does not in itself constitute a theoretical advance.”
“This food grouping includes corn, beans, and squash, but is also enriched by the addition of chilies, cactus, maguey, and amaranth.”
“You can re-energize tired sections of the garden simply by installing a lovely pot, or grouping of pots, in them.”
“A more in-depth understanding can also serve as a buffer against the perils of groupthink.”
“Like many trends, this one is driven in part by Hollywood's marketing groupthink.”
“For one, she will be astonished by not only the pervasive groupthink but how little awareness there is of the narrowness of thought present.”
groupality
(humorous) The sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of a group of individuals; the organized pattern of behavioral characteristics of a group of individuals.
groupuscule
A small politicalgroup, especially of an extremist faction.
“There, he gave a speech accompanied by his younger cousin Chris, sporting a t-shirt advertising the anti-semitic white nationalist groupuscule Nationalist Alternative, and surrounded by other members of the group.”
“Similarly, no more attention would be devoted to a striking near-consensus of economic opinion than to its negation by a speaker representing a groupuscule of eight.”
“She denied that groupism prevailed in the state unit of the party, adding that a difference of opinion of intra-party issue was bound to happen in a national party.”
“The challenge is to know one's own parental and cultural roots, and yet not fall into the trap of clannish groupism, which has stifled Tibetan parliamentarian politics.”
“He will be comfortable with his citation on the blogrolls of various right-wing groupuscules and assorted reactionary ranters.”
“The 1970s seemed to be the age of the groupuscules, the tiny, fissiparous radical activist groups which spread across Western Europe.”
“It was rather a grouping in the sense of Charles Fourier's socialist cells or groupuscules, based, as Breton insisted, on the idea that all passions are good.”