group
grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
elaboration
working out | developing in intricate and painstaking detail |
| group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
| Human Genome Project | an international study of the entire human genetic material |
scientific research
research project | research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses |
group therapy
group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
| classroom project | a school task requiring considerable effort |
pilot project
pilot program | activity planned as a test or trial, they funded a pilot project in six states |
undertaking
project
task labor | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted, he prepared for great undertakings |
| Manhattan Project | code name for the secret United States project set up in to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II |
water development
water project
water program | making an area of water more useful |
| group action | action taken by a group of people |
| group participation | participation by all members of a group |
| working dog | any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs |
Adapid
Adapid group | extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, their descendents probably include the lemurs, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
Omomyid
Omomyid group | extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, probably gave rise to the tarsiers, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
working
workings | a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
linkage group
linked genes | any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together, the genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups |
ABO blood group system
ABO system
ABO group | a classification system for the antigens of human blood, used in blood transfusion therapy, four groups are A and B and AB and O |
| working memory | memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking |
working principle
working rule | a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done |
project
projection | a planned undertaking |
group
mathematical group | a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse |
| group theory | the branch of mathematics dealing with groups |
Abelian group
commutative group | a group that satisfies the commutative law |
| group dynamics | the branch of social psychology that studies the psychodynamics of interaction in social groups |
liaison
link
contact
inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
working papers
work papers
work permit | a legal document giving information required for employment of certain people in certain countries |
| working papers | records kept of activities involved in carrying out a project, the auditor was required to produce his working papers |
| working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
conference
group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
| biological group | a group of plants or animals |
age group
age bracket
cohort | a group of people having approximately the same age |
| social group | people sharing some social relation |
ethnic group
ethnos | people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture |
interest
interest group | (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims, the iron interests stepped up production |
kin
kin group
kinship group
kindred
clan
tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage |
taxonomic group
taxonomic category
taxon | animal or plant group having natural relations |
| animal group | a group of animals |
al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
Islamic Group | a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists, emerged during the s mainly in Egyptian jails, al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule |
Armed Islamic Group
GIA | a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in , aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state, the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
ASALA
Orly Group
rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
First of October Antifascist Resistance Group
GRAPO | an armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain, seeks to overthrow the Spanish government and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist regime, GRAPO is vehemently opposed to the United States |
Islamic Group of Uzbekistan
IMU
Islamic Party of Turkestan | a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in , opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia, is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries |
Jemaah Islamiyah
JI
Islamic Group Islamic Community
Malaysian Mujahidin Group
Malaysia Militant Group | a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in and trained by al-Qaeda, supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia |