{
  "id": "groups.collection",
  "term": "groups",
  "sense": "collection",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "groups",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of entity that are together because each entity has pattern",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "entity are together by pattern",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared pattern",
      "collective identity",
      "emergent cohesion"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains its orbit through periodic reboosts by visiting spacecraft.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Flocks of starlings in Rome coordinate flight patterns through local sensing, forming murmurations.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel integrates contributions from over 15,000 developers across 400 companies.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sets.grouped",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "average.statistical",
    "band.music",
    "club.social",
    "council.governance",
    "custom.social",
    "department.organizational",
    "director.leadership",
    "government.administrative",
    "manager.administrative",
    "member.social",
    "national.political",
    "organization.administrative",
    "party.social",
    "people.social",
    "pictures.visual",
    "role.social",
    "team.social",
    "thousand.numerical",
    "united.social",
    "university.education",
    "war.conflict"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "group",
    "groups"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection"
}