Word: family grouping Part of Speech: noun 1. The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together. Labels: countable Example: This close family grouping may be a fairly recent development, for Lang and Tastevin (1937, p. 70) report that the Mwila once lived in villages of fifteen or twenty families consisting of approximately one hundred people and that, at the time they were writing, five or six families still grouped around a chief. Example: This strategy of family grouping and sharing of responsibilities appears to be designed to enable coati mothers to devote more time to searching for food, rather than having to individually protect their young. 2. A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage. Labels: countable Example: Indeed, viewing Jewish women by family formation and moving from the more mature family groupings to the youngest family groupings, the data indicate a dramatic decline in employment in clerical and technical capacities and a corresponding increase in those employed in professional capacities. Example: The three sorts of tensions discussed here, then, generally elicit open resistance only when one family grouping is thought to be favored or disfavored over others. In such cases, the spokesperson for the family grouping generally approaches the foreman with the family's grievance. 3. A group of family members who are posed together. Labels: countable Example: In November of 1978, my mother-in-law gave me a box of old photos, one of which was a family grouping taken ca. 1892. Example: I've actually organized 100 people in a family grouping on catering hall steps! If you're faced with shooting a 100-person family, the quality of the posing isn't the issue, as long as the photograph is sharp and centered. 4. A taxonomic grouping at the family level. Labels: countable Example: To a large extent the grouping is built up from partially facial characters, and I am not at all surprised to find Palæntologists offering suggestions, or making re-arrangements of the family grouping. The family Cerioporidæ is particularly obnoxious, for there is not the least affinity between the Spiropora of Haime, and the Heteroporella of Busk. Example: The deer family grouping is Cervidae, spelled without italics and pronounced SERV-ee-dah. 5. A group of related items. Labels: countable Example: Just as an atom is a grouping of sub-atomic particles, and an organ or organism is a family grouping of cells, so also is 'the soul' a family grouping of selves. Example: The individual members of the cytochrome P450 superfamily are referred to using the nomenclative CYP (for the superfamily) plus a number identifying a family grouping of isozymes with a more than 40% homology of amino acid sequences (e.g., CYP2). 6. The strategy of putting related inventory items together. Labels: uncountable Example: Effective item placement can often be achieved through tying both the inventory stratification and family grouping approaches together. Example: Is family grouping applied in storage with the objective of making processes efficient? 7. The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level. Labels: UK, uncountable Example: Family grouping, as Elsa Ferri pointed out in her study of combined nursery centres (Ferri etal., 1981), similarly carries an element of wishful thinking. What could be less like the average family in the 1990s than up to ten shildren of different ages spending all day in the same room in the charge of one or two young nursery workers? Example: As Mindel (1995) has noted, use of a “family grouping model” in child care, in which small cross-age groups stay together with the same child care professional during their entire time in child care, benefits children through the grade school years. How many more benefits could be seen in family grouping models staffed by teachers trained on attachment relationship building?