subsume
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“I take”). Compare English consume.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]subsume (third-person singular simple present subsumes, present participle subsuming, simple past and past participle subsumed)
- (transitive) 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;
- March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
- (transitive) To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to place under another as belonging to it
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to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule
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French
[edit]Verb
[edit]subsume
- inflection of subsumer:
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]subsume
- inflection of subsumir:
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