subsume

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin subsumō, equivalent to the Latin sub- (“sub-”) and sūmō (“to take”), cf. the English consume.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /səbˈsjuːm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /səbˈsuːm/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Verb[edit]

subsume (third-person singular simple present subsumes, present participle subsuming, simple past and past participle subsumed)

  1. To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
    • March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
      A few years later (in a paper published by the Royal Society in 1970, by which time Hawking had become a fellow “for distinction in science” of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), he and I joined forces to publish an even more powerful theorem which subsumed almost all the work in this area that had gone before.
    • 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 453--468.
      no allusion is made to forms because Plato is subsuming under the class of productive crafts both divine and human imitation;
  2. To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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French[edit]

Verb[edit]

subsume

  1. inflection of subsumer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

subsume

  1. inflection of subsumir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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