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Groupe Mulliez
Groupe Mulliez, organized around the Association Familiale Mulliez, is a French family holding controlling Auchan, Decathlon, and Leroy Merlin, begun in 1905 as wool spinning near Roubaix.
Grouped-query attention
Grouped-query attention (GQA) is a transformer attention design introduced by Google researchers in 2023 that lets query heads share key-value heads, shrinking the KV cache.
Grouper
Grouper is the common name for large, bottom-dwelling predatory reef fish of the subfamily Epinephelinae, with about 159 species; some are farmed, and the Nassau grouper is Endangered.
Groupie
Groupie: a devoted fan who follows a singer, band, or celebrity to meet them; coined 1967 in rock culture, popularized by Rolling Stone's 1969 issue, applied mostly to young women, also a graph-theory term.
Grouplove
Grouplove (GROUPLOVE) is a Los Angeles indie rock/indie pop band formed in 2009 by members who met in Crete; known for the No. 1 Alternative hit "Tongue Tied" and albums Never Trust a Happy Song (2011) through I Want a Little Bit More (2024).
Groupoid
A groupoid is a small category in which every morphism is an isomorphism, equivalently a set with a partial multiplication, introduced by Heinrich Brandt in 1926.
Groupon
Groupon is an e-commerce marketplace selling discounted vouchers for local businesses. Founded in Chicago in 2008, it became the fastest company to reach $1 billion in revenue.
Groups of bazinas (tumuli)
Groups of bazinas (tumuli): Pleiades place 297479, unnamed pre-Islamic stone tomb groups (bazinas, stepped Berber tumuli) mapped in the Atlas Archéologique southeast of Haraza, Kabylia, Algeria, dated 550 BC to AD 300.
Groupthink
Groupthink, coined by Yale psychologist Irving Janis in the 1960s-1970s, is a cohesive group's drive for consensus that overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives; later research revised the model toward norms and process losses.
Grouse
Grouse (Tetraoninae), plump gamebirds of Phasianidae with 19 species in 10 genera, holarctic, feathered tarsi, lekking displays; includes sage-grouse, ptarmigan, capercaillie, prairie-chickens.
Grouse Mountain
Grouse Mountain, "The Peak of Vancouver," is a 1,231 m North Shore peak in North Vancouver, BC, with the Skyride tramway (opened 1966), a ski area, and the grizzly bear Refuge for Endangered Wildlife; distinct from Cypress and Mount Seymour.
Grout
Grout, also called tile grout, is a fluid, typically cementitious construction material poured into joints, cavities, or porous ground to fill space, bond elements, or block water.
Grout curtain
A grout curtain is a thin zone in a dam's foundation into which grout is injected through lines of boreholes to reduce seepage and uplift pressure.
Grouted macadam
Grouted macadam is a semi-flexible pavement material made by filling the voids of open-graded asphalt with cementitious grout, first developed in France in the 1950s.
Grove (nature)
Grove (nature): a small group of trees, wild or planted, distinct from a forest by extent and lack of undergrowth; also sacred groves protected by religion worldwide.
Grove Karl Gilbert
Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918) was an American geologist who served the USGS for 39 years and became a founder of geomorphology, the study of how landforms are shaped.
Grove Press
Grove Press, an American literary publisher founded in Greenwich Village (1947 or 1949, sources differ), bought by Barney Rosset in 1951 for $3,000; it ended US literary censorship via Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Naked Lunch, and is now a Grove Atlantic imprint.
Grove Ventures
Grove Ventures is a Tel Aviv-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Dov Moran, inventor of the USB flash drive, investing in Israeli deep-tech startups.
Grover
Grover is a blue monster Muppet on Sesame Street, performed by Frank Oz and later Eric Jacobson, and star of the 1971 book The Monster at the End of This Book.
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland (Stephen Grover Cleveland) was an American Democratic politician who served as both the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the first with nonconsecutive terms.
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Grover Cleveland "Pete" Alexander (1887–1950), also Old Pete, Hall of Fame pitcher (1938) who won 373 games with a 2.56 ERA, set a 28-win rookie record in 1911, won three Triple Crowns, and starred in the 1926 World Series.
Grover Dale
Grover Dale (born 1935, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), American dancer, choreographer, and director; original Snowboy in West Side Story, Tony-winning co-director of Jerome Robbins' Broadway, founder of Answers4Dancers.
Grover Klemmer
Grover Klemmer (1921-2015), American quarter-miler for Cal; set 1941 world records at 400m (46.0) and 440y (46.4), anchored world-record mile and two-mile relays; later CCSF coach and NFL referee.
Grover Krantz
Grover Sanders Krantz (1931-2002), American physical anthropologist at Washington State University and expert on hominoid evolution, the first credentialed academic to study Bigfoot scientifically, proposing a Gigantopithecus origin for Sasquatch.
Grover M. Hutchins
Grover M. Hutchins (1932–2010) was an American pathologist at Johns Hopkins for 61 years who directed Autopsy Services and published a landmark 1986 study linking the floppy mitral valve to annular disjunction.
Grover Norquist
Grover Norquist, American anti-tax activist and founder of Americans for Tax Reform (1985), author of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and chair of the weekly Wednesday Meeting coalition.
Grover Washington Jr.
Grover Washington Jr. (1943–1999) was an American jazz saxophonist from Buffalo, New York, whose blend of soul-jazz, funk, and pop made him a founder of smooth jazz.
Grover's algorithm
Grover's algorithm, also called the Grover search algorithm, is a quantum algorithm proposed by Lov Grover at Bell Labs in 1996 that finds a marked item in an unstructured search space using O(√N) queries.
Grow (film)
Grow is a 2025 British family comedy directed by John McPhail, starring Golda Rosheuvel, Priya-Rose Brookwell, and Nick Frost, about an orphaned girl who grows a giant pumpkin named Peter for her town's contest; premiered at Edinburgh, released October 2025.
Grow a Garden
Grow a Garden is a Roblox farming simulation launched March 25, 2025, created by a 16-year-old; players plant seeds, harvest offline-growing crops, and sell for Sheckles. It set a 21.6 million concurrent-player record and passed 35.9 billion visits.