headgroup

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Etymology

From head +‎ group.

Noun

headgroup (plural headgroups)

  1. (organic chemistry) A bulky part of a molecule, often containing one or more functional groups, attached to a relatively long aliphatic tail or backbone
  2. (mathematics) The group of instances at the head (high end) of a distribution curve

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