subsume

See also: subsumé

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

Related terms

• subsumption

Translations

to place under another as belonging to it

• Catalan: subsumir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 归入 (zh) (guīrù)

• Dutch: onderbrengen (nl), plaatsen in
• Finnish: sisällyttää, liittää (fi)
• French: subsumer (fr), impliquer (fr) (logic)
• German: einordnen (de), fassen (de), klassifizieren (de), subsumieren (de), zusammenfassen (de)
• Greek: υπάγω (el) (ypágo), εντάσσω (el) (entásso)
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• Irish: fo-ghlac
• Italian: classificare (it)
• Portuguese: classificar (pt), incluir (pt), subordinar (pt)
• Russian: включа́ть в какую-л. категорию (vključátʹ v kakuju-l. kategoriju)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: подво̀дити impf, укључи́вати impf

  Roman: podvòditi (sh) impf, uključívati (sh) impf

• Spanish: subsumir (es)
• Swedish: sammanfatta (sv)
• Turkish: içine almak (tr), dâhil etmek (tr), ihtivâ etmek (tr), kapsamak (tr), sınıflandırmak (tr)

to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule

• Dutch: veralgemenen (nl), verenigen (nl)
• French: généraliser (fr), rejoindre (fr), colliger (fr)
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• German: verbinden (de), vereinigen (de)
• Spanish: subsumir (es)

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French

Verb

subsume

1. first-person singular present indicative of subsumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of subsumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of subsumer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of subsumer
5. second-person singular imperative of subsumer

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Spanish

Verb

subsume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of subsumir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of subsumir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of subsumir.