grouping vs accumulation

accumulation vs grouping

grouping and accumulation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grouping	Yes	No	No	No
accumulation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, accumulation is a hyponym of grouping; that is, accumulation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than grouping:

grouping: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
accumulation: several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Other hyponyms of grouping include human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world, arrangement, straggle, kingdom, biological group, biotic community, community, people, social group, aggregation, assemblage, collection, edition, electron shell, ethnic group, ethnos, race, association, cloud, swarm, subgroup, 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.

grouping (noun)	accumulation (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit	the act of accumulating
the activity of putting things together in groups	several things grouped together or considered as a whole
a system for classifying things into groups	(finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
	an increase by natural growth or addition

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