group grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
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 |
target practice | practice in shooting at targets |
group action | action taken by a group of people |
group participation | participation by all members of a group |
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 |
firing range target range | a practice range for target practice |
target butt | sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at |
target acquisition system | a shipboard system for the detection and identification and location of a target with enough detail to permit effective weapon employment |
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 |
target cell | an abnormal red blood cell with the appearance of a dark ring surrounding a dark center, associated with anemia |
target organ | (radiology) organ intended to receive the therapeutic dose of a radioactive substance |
target cell | any cell that has a specific receptor for an antigen or antibody or hormone or drug, or is the focus of contact by a virus or phagocyte or nerve fiber etc. |
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 |
aim object objective target | the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable), the sole object of her trip was to see her children |
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 |
object language target language | the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated |
object program target program | a fully compiled or assembled program ready to be loaded into the computer |
object language target language | a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated |
conference group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
target mark | a reference point to shoot at, his arrow hit the mark |
blip pip radar target | a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface |
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 |
Kaplan Group Association of Islamic Groups and Communities Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group FIG Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya Libyan Fighting Group Libyan Islamic Group | a Libyan terrorist group organized in and aligned with al-Qaeda, seeks to radicalize the Libyan government, attempted to assassinate Qaddafi |
Orange Group OV | a terrorist group of Protestants who oppose any political settlement with Irish nationalists, a paramilitary group that attacks Catholic interests in Northern Ireland |