grouping

«grouping» in Mova's judaism dictionary: put together because they are alike or work together — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a grouping, groupings); verb form (group, groups, grouped, grouping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A set of people or things that are put together because they are alike or work together. tree →

2) The act of putting things into groups. tree →

3) (maths) Putting numbers or objects into equal groups to help count, multiply or divide; also using brackets to group parts of a calculation. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah the arrangement of the letters into groups is linked to numbers and to the making of the world. The book is seen as joining letters and numbers in one scheme. In the primary lessons: In maths lessons grouping helps with multiplication (3 groups of 4 = 12), division (sharing into groups) and place value (grouping into tens). In science, grouping or classifying animals and materials by features is a key skill. In class, teachers arrange pupils in groupings for tasks. In politics a grouping is a set of parties or countries working together. Phrases: grouping in tens, ability grouping, a political grouping.

examples

• The grouping of the processes of origin into an arrangement, at once alphabetic and numeral, is one only to be found in Semitic authors. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• We used grouping to count the beads in tens. tree →
• 20 sweets shared by grouping into 5s gives 4 groups. tree →
• In science we did a grouping of animals by what they eat. tree →
• The teacher changed the table groupings this week. tree →
• Brackets show the grouping in 2 × (3 + 4). tree →
• A new grouping of countries agreed to work together on climate. tree →
• Grouping words by their spelling patterns helps me learn them. tree →

note

Countable: a grouping, groupings. In maths, «grouping» for division means: how many groups of a given size fit into a number, e.g. 12 ÷ 3 = 4 groups of 3. Brackets change the grouping and so the answer: (2 + 3) × 4 = 20, but 2 + 3 × 4 = 14.

In the corpora

• Grouping: 12 apples put into bags of 3 fill 12 ÷ 3 = 4 bags.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «grouping» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.