Organization /(ôr`gan*ī*zā"shŭn)/

Or·gan·i·za·tion

Organization

n.
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.
  2. The state of being organized.
  3. That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism (Biol.)
    The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization.
    — McKendrick.
  4. A group of persons associated together for a common purpose and having a set of rules which specify the relations of the individual members to the whole gorup.
  5. The manner in which something is organized; the relations included in an organized state or condition; as, the organization of the department permits ad hoc groups to form.
    What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means?