Cohort

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Cohort may mean:

  • Cohort (group), a group or band of people.
  • Cohort (companion), a companion or associate.
  • Cohort (military unit), a component element of a Roman legion.
  • Cohort (statistics), an age group in statistics and biology, from which derives
    • Cohort study, a form of longitudinal study used in medicine and social science,
    • A cohort-based course in E-learning is one that relies on the interaction with a group of classmates,
    • In the Skull and Bones fraternity, a cohort is a year's group of initiates.
  • Cohort (computer science), a concept in computer science.
  • A term in taxonomy for a group of allied orders or families of plants or animals.
  • A supporter, as used in American English from around 1950. Used in plural "cohorts" and usually in a negative sense as in "Cohorts in crime". Apparently a malapropism derived from the older "cahoots".

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