grouping

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: group=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

grouping, n. 

 The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

grouping, n. a process or system of allocation to groups.

THESAURUS

grouping

Bund, Rochdale cooperative, age group, alliance, analysis, appraisal, arrangement, assemblage, assessment, association, assortment, atmosphere, axis, balance, band, batch, battalion, bevy, bloc, blood, body, bracket, branch, brigade, brushwork, bunch, cabal, cast, caste, cataloging, categorization, category, clan, class, classification, clique, clump, cluster, coalition, codification, cohort, college, color, combination, combine, common market, company, complement, composition, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, copse, corps, coterie, council, covey, credit union, crew, crop, crowd, culling, customs union, design, detachment, detail, division, draftsmanship, economic community, estate, evaluation, faction, factoring, federation, filing, fleet, free trade area, gang, gauging, gradation, grade, grading, group, groupment, grove, hassock, head, heading, identification, in-group, indexing, junta, kin, knot, label, league, level, line, lot, machine, mess, mob, movement, order, out-group, outfit, pack, painterliness, partnership, party, peer group, perspective, phalanx, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, placement, platoon, political machine, position, posse, predicament, race, ranging, rank, ranking, rating, regiment, ring, rubric, salon, screening, section, selection, sept, set, shading, shadow, shock, sifting, sifting out, slew, society, sorting, sorting out, squad, stable, station, status, stook, strain, stratification, stratum, string, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, subordination, tabulation, taxonomy, team, technique, thicket, tier, title, tone, treatment, triage, tribe, troop, troupe, tuft, tussock, typology, union, values, weighing, wing, winnowing, wisp

ROGET THESAURUS

grouping

Arrangement

N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.