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Occurring between or relating to different groups.
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- intergroup comparison
- intergroup relation
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The intergroup comparison used the same measure for each group.
Intergroup cooperation did not erase disagreement within either group.
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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally relational or categorical; comparison only where the particular property admits gradation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: formal properties, scope and scale, organizational relations, analytic representation. Disciplines: academic writing, formal methods, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.
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