subset
[suhb-set]
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Origin of subset
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Related Words for subset
subdivision, member, batch, group, division, portion, share, cut, ration, part, section, fragmentExamples from the Web for subset
Contemporary Examples of subset
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 of subset
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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