Csoport

Csoport is a Hungarian noun meaning a group, crowd, or team: a collection of individuals, objects, or ideas linked by a common feature or purpose. The term is used across everyday language and formal contexts to describe any aggregation that forms a unit for analysis, action, or organization. In everyday usage, common phrases include tanulócsoport (study group), kutatócsoport (research group), and munkacsoport (working group). The word can refer to small or large assemblies, from a handful of people to a nationwide coalition. In sociological or organizational contexts, csoport denotes the functional unit through which members interact and coordinate activities.

In mathematics, csoport denotes an algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with an operation that combines any two elements to yield a third element, satisfying closure, associativity, identity, and invertibility. This sense is distinct from its everyday meaning but retains the core idea of a cohesive unit with internal rules. The mathematical term is fundamental in abstract algebra and appears in university curricula and scientific literature written in Hungarian.

Other related terms include társaság (society or company) and közösség (community), which emphasize social relations or shared life rather than a defined, rule-based unit. Csoport can be formed temporarily for a task or persist as a stable subdivision of an organization. The plural form is csoportok, and it is used with various adjectives to describe size, function, or composition.