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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Noun

Size, mass or volume.

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The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface.

The major part of something.

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The result of water retained by fibre.

(uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.

(countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.

(bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.

(brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.

(obsolete) The body.

* Shakespeare

My liver leaped within my bulk .

(George Turberville)