subset
[suhb-set]
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Origin of subset
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And in September 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ordered the release of a 21-photo subset.
They acted as if music were a subset of the fashion or cinema or advertising industries.
The Obama administration mainly sees the Syrian war as a subset of the Iran question.
But a substantial minority—almost one-third of the subset—did not fit that description.
But, the fact of coverage also leads some subset of these people to smoke who otherwise would not.
Historical Examples
A subset of the Sun Tzu example is the view that war is deception.
Shock and AweHarlan K. Ullman
subset
- maths
- a set the members of which are all members of some given class: A is a subset of B is usually written A⊆B
- proper subsetone that is strictly contained within a larger class and excludes some of its membersSymbol: A⊂B
- a set within a larger set
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subset
[sŭb′sĕt′]
- A set whose members are all contained in another set. The set of positive integers, for example, is a subset of the set of integers.
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