Noun

(armies)

A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.

The army was sent in to quell the uprising.

# Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.

The army received a bigger share of this year's budget increase than the navy or air force.

# (often capitalized) Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions).

The Fourth Army''' suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second '''Army , also deployed on the Western front.

The governmental agency in charge of a state's army.

The army opposed the legislature's involvement.

(figuratively) A large group of people working toward the same purpose.

It took an army of accountants to uncover the fraud.

(figuratively) A large group of social animals working toward the same purpose.

Our house is being attacked by an army of ants.

(figuratively) Any multitude.

On sunny days the beaches draw armies of tourists of all kinds.

Noun

(en noun)

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

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(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

(geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.

A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

(chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

(military) An air force formation.

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

(computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while at the same time not playing teams that belong to other sets in the division.

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