Family (disambiguation)

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A family is a domestic or social group.

Family or The Family may also refer to:

Science

• Family (biology), a level of scientific classification for organisms
• Family (periodic table), a group in the periodic table of elements
• Gene family, a set of similar genes resulting from gene duplications
• Protein family, a set of similar proteins resulting from gene duplications

Mathematics

• Family of curves, a set of curves resulting from a function with variable parameters
• Family of sets, a collection of sets
• Indexed family, a family where each element can be given an index
• Normal family, a collection of continuous functions
• Parametric family, a family where elements are specified by a set of parameters

Religion

• The Family (Christian political organization), or The Fellowship, a Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Christian group
• "The Family: A Proclamation to the World", a 1995 statement issued by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Family International, a religious movement formerly called the Children of God
• The Family (Australian New Age group), a controversial Australian religious group
• The Holy Family of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph

Art and entertainment

Other uses

• Family (US Census), a group of related people residing together
• Family Radio, a non-commercial traditional religious broadcasting network in the United States
• The Family (American crime organization), an NJ African-American crime organization founded by Akbar Pray
• The Family (Arkansas politics), a 19th-century American political coalition
• The Family (club), a private club formed in San Francisco in 1901
• "The Family", a group of 18th-century Carolina planters opposed by George Burrington
• "The Family", a 2005–06 American terrorist cell arrested in Operation Backfire

See also

• Familia (disambiguation)
• Familial (disambiguation)
• La Familia (disambiguation)