grouping vs subgroup

subgroup vs grouping

grouping and subgroup both are nouns.

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

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

grouping: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
subgroup: a distinct and often subordinate group within a group

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, 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.

grouping (noun)	subgroup (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit	(mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group
the activity of putting things together in groups	a distinct and often subordinate group within a group
a system for classifying things into groups

Difference between grouping and subgroup

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