Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A distinct group within a group; a subdivision of a group.
- noun A subordinate group.
- noun Mathematics A group that is a subset of a group.
- transitive verb To divide into subgroups.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any subordinate group in classification; a subdivision of a group; especially, a division the name of which begins with sub-, as subfamily or subgenus.
- noun A mathematical group forming part of another group.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A subdivision of a group, as of animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A group within a larger group; a group whose members are some, but not all, of the members of a larger group.
- noun group theory A
subset H of agroup G that is itself a group and has the samebinary operation as G. - verb To
divide orclassify into subgroups
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group
- noun a distinct and often subordinate group within a group
Etymologies
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Examples
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So the minimum number required to count a subgroup is a GOOD feature of the law, and if anything, that number is too low in most cases.
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Drawing on exit polls, he infers that this subgroup is likely two-thirds Latino and concludes that, as such, the apparent shift to Republicans is the "most implausible result" in the Gallup Poll.
Gallup's Frank Newport Responds To Criticism The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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Drawing on exit polls, he infers that this subgroup is likely two-thirds Latino and concludes that, as such, the apparent shift to Republicans is the "most implausible result" in the Gallup Poll.
Gallup's Frank Newport Responds To Criticism Mark Blumenthal 2010
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Drawing on exit polls, he infers that this subgroup is likely two-thirds Latino and concludes that, as such, the apparent shift to Republicans is the "most implausible result" in the Gallup Poll.
Gallup's Frank Newport Responds To Criticism The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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Drawing on exit polls, he infers that this subgroup is likely two-thirds Latino and concludes that, as such, the apparent shift to Republicans is the "most implausible result" in the Gallup Poll.
Gallup's Frank Newport Responds To Criticism The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Drawing on exit polls, he infers that this subgroup is likely two-thirds Latino and concludes that, as such, the apparent shift to Republicans is the "most implausible result" in the Gallup Poll.
Gallup's Frank Newport Responds To Criticism Mark Blumenthal 2010
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Drawing on exit polls, he infers that this subgroup is likely two-thirds Latino and concludes that, as such, the apparent shift to Republicans is the "most implausible result" in the Gallup Poll.
Gallup's Frank Newport Responds To Criticism The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The problem with my subgroup is that I don't think this 'shutdown' will ever be possible.
Colonel Candid with the Dagger in the Conference Room Candid Engineer 2008
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Then you cannot have one group bringing the scores up to passing when a subgroup is “left behind”
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Whatever a federal grand jury investigating the case decides, a small political subgroup is experiencing the odd sensation that this leak has sprung before.
08/06/2005 2005
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