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group vs subgroup

subgroup vs group

group and subgroup both are nouns.

group is a verb but subgroup is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
group Yes No Yes No
subgroup Yes No No No
As nouns, subgroup is a hyponym of group; that is, subgroup is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than group:
  • group: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
  • subgroup: a distinct and often subordinate group within a group
Other hyponyms of group include human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world, arrangement, straggle, kingdom, biological group, biotic community, community, people, social group, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, edition, electron shell, ethnic group, ethnos, race, association, cloud, swarm, sainthood, citizenry, people, population, hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed, varna, circuit, scheme, system, series, actinide, actinoid, actinon, lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth, halogen, stellar association, mineral association.
As nouns, subgroup is a hyponym of group; that is, subgroup is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than group:
  • group: a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
  • subgroup: (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group
Other hyponyms of group include Abelian group, commutative group.
group (noun) subgroup (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group
a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse a distinct and often subordinate group within a group
(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
group (verb) subgroup (verb)
arrange into a group or groups
form a group or group together
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