群
Meanings
1
group; cluster; crowd; swarm; herd or school
Usually used as a noun suffix or compound element for a collection of similar things, people, or animals; the English translation depends on the noun, such as cluster for buildings, crowd for people, or school for fish.
A cluster of high-rise buildings stands in front of the station.
A large school of fish passed under the boat.
2
Mathematical term for a set with an operation satisfying the group axioms; also appears as a suffix in terms such as 対称群.
The set of all integers forms a group under addition.
In class, we examined the properties of symmetric groups.
Usage patterns
- 〈物〉の群a group/cluster/school of ~
A school of fish was swimming in the sea.
Expressions· 7
- 群をなすswarm; crowd; flock together
- 群を抜くstand out from the crowd; be far superior; surpass the rest
- 群に分けるdivide into groups
- 群をなしてin crowds; in a group; in swarms
- 鶏群の一鶴a swan among ducklings; a diamond among stones; a great figure among the common run of men
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- 群盲象を撫ずthe mediocre have no right to criticize the great
- 群羊を駆って猛虎を攻むgroup together against a stronger enemy