An abelian group is a set, A, together with an operation "•" that combines any two elements a and b to form another element denoted.

In mathematics, a group is an algebraic structure consisting of a set together with an operation that combines any two of its elements to form a third element.

Margot Adler noted how there were many pagan groups whose practices revolved around the inclusion and celebration of male homosexuality, such as the Minoan Brotherhood, a Wiccan group that combines the iconography from ancient Minoan religion with a Wiccan theology and an emphasis on " men-loving-men ", and the eclectic pagan group known as the Radical Faeries.

This combines both the legislative and executive functions in one group of officials, usually three or more in number, elected city-wide.

This is borne out by the impressive results obtained using Mentalization based treatment, a model that combines dynamic group psychotherapy with individual psychotherapy and case management.

* " is a natural-born storyteller " who " combines an unlikely group of influences-Heart of Darkness, Vietnam War movies, Lord of the Flies, the Super Mario Bros. video game-into ... ambitious, propulsive fiction.

Their 1968 anti-war single " The Unknown Soldier ", combines specially filmed footage of the group — including the depiction of a mock execution by firing squad — with extensive intercutting of stock footage, including graphic footage of the carnage of the Vietnam War.

Finally, the Interaction Styles of Linda V. Berens combines Directing and Informing with E / I to form another group of " styles " which greatly resemble the ancient temperaments, and these are mapped together with the Keirsey Temperaments onto the 16 types.

An integrated Lloyd's vehicle ( ILV ) is a group of companies that combines a corporate member, a managing agent, and a syndicate under common ownership.

Recently there has also been research development that combines space syntax with geographic accessibility analysis in GIS, such as the place syntax-models developed by the research group Spatial Analysis and Design at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

The group combines rock drumming, electro keyboards, and hip-hop vocals.

In addition, Dominica's own popular music industry has created a form called bouyon, which combines elements from several styles and has achieved a wide fanbase in Dominica, especially the group WCK ( Windward Caribbean Kulture ) and KKK ( Triple k International ).

It combines features of a group annuity and a lottery.

The town centre of many larger British towns combines a group of outdoor shopping streets, one or more of which may be pedestrianised, with an adjacent indoor shopping centre.

Gene-culture coevolution is a modern hypothesis ( applicable mostly to humans ) that combines evolutionary biology and modern sociobiology to indicate group selection.

System Crash is an avant-garde rock group which combines heavy sound with philosophical and political lyrics and multimedia projection of videos and sounds of current world, real and virtual.

In its modern form, the HMO combines a large group practice, contracts with employers to care for a group of workers, and a prepayment plan for both hospitals and group practices.

The Standard Model combines the strong interaction, with the unified electroweak interaction ( unifying the weak and electromagnetic interaction ) through the symmetry group SU ( 2 ) xU ( 1 ) xSU ( 3 ).

An example of the former is Afro-Celt Sound System, a band that combines Irish and West African traditions, the multiple varieties of Afro-funk played by the likes of Fela Kuti, or the combination of traditional Celtic and middle eastern melodies by the group Mithril.

Often labelled commercially as a crossover classical group, Operatica actually refers more to the name of the project, instead of the name of a band, which combines various forms of strong female vocals over electronic beats.

The Hothouse Flowers are an Irish rock group that combines traditional Irish music with influences from soul, gospel and rock.

This group combines the older taxa Mesogastropoda and Stenoglossa from classification by Johannes Thiele and is equivalent to the Monotocardia as defined by Mörch in 1865, as revised.

Design elements closely rooted to traditional forms but wearing a definite contemporary label keynote Drexel's fall 1961 group, Composite.

All of the bishops were then asked to sign their assent to the Tome, but a group of thirteen Egyptians refused, saying that they would assent to " the traditional faith.

Miyake is a traditional Japanese taiko drumming style that has become known through works of a taiko group Kodo, and is formally called " Miyake-jima Kamitsuki Mikoshi Daiko ".

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

Aside from the traditional usage, the term empire can be used in an extended sense to denote a large-scale business enterprise ( e. g. a transnational corporation ), or a political organisation of either national -, regional-or city scale, controlled either by a person ( a political boss ) or a group authority ( political bosses ).

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians ( or " irregulars ") use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.

Conjugation is also the traditional name of a group of verbs that share a similar conjugation pattern in a particular language ( a verb class ).

While he had been in the vanguard with The Byrds and the Burrito Brothers, Parsons was now perceived as being too authentic and traditional in an era dominated by the stylings of the Eagles, whose sound Parsons disdained ( although he did maintain cordial relations with Bernie Leadon, a former member of the Eagles who left the group in 1975 ).

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

Wade Schuman, founder of the group Hazmat Modine, has fused overblowing with older traditional styles and middle European harmonies.

On the other hand, similar to the use of slang in traditional face-to-face speech or written language, slang on the Internet is often a way of indicating group membership.

The traditional language of the Inuit is a system of closely interrelated dialects that are not readily comprehensible from one end of the Inuit world to the other, and some people do not think of it as a single language but rather as a group of languages.

Since the emergence of the post-1943 state and after the destruction of the Ottoman Caliphate, national policy has been determined largely by a relatively restricted group of traditional regional and sectarian leaders.

They excluded logic and added to the traditional Latin grammar and rhetoric not only history, Greek, and moral philosophy ( ethics ), but made poetry, once a sequel of grammar and rhetoric, the most important member of the whole group.

A more traditional example is interpreting the axioms of a particular algebraic system such as a group, in the context of a model provided by a specific group.

The adoption of national identity in terms of historical development, has commonly been the result of a response by an influential group or groups that is unsatisfied with traditional identities due to inconsistency between their defined social order and the experience of that social order by its members, resulting in a situation of anomie that nationalists seek to resolve.

This group moved easily between Welsh and English societies and languages, occupying important offices for the Marcher Lords while maintaining their position as uchelwyr — nobles descended from the pre-conquest Welsh royal dynasties — in traditional Welsh society.

In reaction to the emergence of Reform Judaism, a group of traditionalist German Jews emerged who supported some of the values of the Haskalah but who wanted to defend a conservative, traditional interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.

Hence, the traditional platyhelminth subgroup " Turbellaria " is now regarded as paraphyletic, since it excludes the wholly parasitic groups, although these are descended from one group of " turbellarians ".

The traditional class Reptile | Reptilia ( green field ) is a paraphyletic group comprising all amniote s other than the mammals and birds. Paraphyly is a characteristic of some groups of organisms and families of languages.

However, as reptiles in the traditional sense are the ancestors of both birds and mammals, many taxonomists have more recently adopted a cladistic approach, preferring to group animals based exclusively on shared ancestry rather than on shared features ; this orientation has led some to abandon reptiles as a systematic unit or redefine the reptiles in a manner that includes birds.

The traditional class Reptilia ( green field ) is a paraphyly | paraphyletic group comprising all non-avian and non-mammalian amniotes. In 1956 D. M. S.

Modesto and Anderson reviewed the many previous definitions, and proposed a modified definition which they intended to retain most traditional content of the group while keeping it stable and monophyletic.

This is different from traditional insurance, in that no premium is exchanged between members of the group up front, but instead losses are assessed to all members of the group.