subsume
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/səbˈsjuːm/(UK)
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/səbˈsjuːm/(UK) · /səbˈsuːm/(US)
Definition of subsume
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
“Near-synonym: comprise”
“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;”
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verb
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(transitive)To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
“Near-synonym: comprise”
“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;”
- (transitive)To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“to take”). Compare English consume.
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