Subsume

Quick meaning: Subsume is a verb meaning (transitive) To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.

Meaning

(transitive) To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: comprise

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 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.

Word Forms

• subsumes
• subsuming
• subsumed

Synonyms for subsume

Depending on context, synonyms include comprise, colligate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colligate, integrate, incorporate, include, blend, melt.

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