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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *rühmä (compare Estonian rühm), borrowed from Proto-Baltic (compare Lithuanian trūkšmas).
Pronunciation
Noun
ryhmä
- group (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other)
- team (group of people on a work project)
- Synonym: tiimi
- body (coherent group, group of people having a common purpose or opinion)
Ryhmä aseistettuja vartijoita saattoi minut ulos rakennuksesta.- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- (military) squad (unit of tactical military personnel or police officers, usually numbering about 5–10)
- (military) group (air force formation)
- troupe (company of actors, etc.)
- group (subset of a culture or of a society)
- complex (assemblage of related things, collection)
- B-vitamiiniryhmä ― vitamin B complex
- (group theory) group (set with an associative binary operation and certain conditions)
- (mathematics) system (of related things, e.g. equations, to be solved simultaneously)
- (chemistry) group (column in the periodic table)
- (astronomy) group (small number of galaxies)
- (computing) group (user group)
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