family grouping

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together. countable
    — This close family grouping may be a fairly recent development, for Lang and Tastevin (1937, p. 70) report that the Mwila once lived in villages of fifteen or twenty families consisting of approximately one hundred people and that, at the time they were writing, five or six families still grouped around a chief.
  2. A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage. countable
    — Indeed, viewing Jewish women by family formation and moving from the more mature family groupings to the youngest family groupings, the data indicate a dramatic decline in employment in clerical and technical capacities and a corresponding increase in those employed in professional capacities.
  3. A group of family members who are posed together. countable
    — In November of 1978, my mother-in-law gave me a box of old photos, one of which was a family grouping taken ca. 1892.
  4. A taxonomic grouping at the family level. countable
    — To a large extent the grouping is built up from partially facial characters, and I am not at all surprised to find Palæntologists offering suggestions, or making re-arrangements of the family grouping. The family Cerioporidæ is particularly obnoxious, for there is not the least affinity between the Spiropora of Haime, and the Heteroporella of Busk.
  5. A group of related items. countable
    — Just as an atom is a grouping of sub-atomic particles, and an organ or organism is a family grouping of cells, so also is 'the soul' a family grouping of selves.
  6. The strategy of putting related inventory items together. uncountable
    — Effective item placement can often be achieved through tying both the inventory stratification and family grouping approaches together.
  7. The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level. UK,uncountable
    — Family grouping, as Elsa Ferri pointed out in her study of combined nursery centres (Ferri etal., 1981), similarly carries an element of wishful thinking. What could be less like the average family in the 1990s than up to ten shildren of different ages spending all day in the same room in the charge of one or two young nursery workers?

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family groupings plural
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