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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subset
noun
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▪ An essential prerequisite for this work will be the definition of the directly implementable subsets of occam.
▪ In the subset of oral studies, ECGs were obtained in 1733 of 2786 patients with 24,000 attacks.
▪ The subsets of A form a natural lattice.
▪ The clinical significance of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positive and negative subsets in both groups of patients thus remains unexplained.
▪ The set of all possibilities clearly includes, as a subset, all possible values that could ever exist in any universe.
▪ This may be based on the core vocabulary, or a subset thereof.
▪ You may inspect either a subset or all of your oldest 16 mail messages.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subset

also sub-set, "subordinate set," 1897, originally in mathematics, from sub- + set (n.1).

Wiktionary
subset

n. 1 (context set theory English) With respect to another set, a set such that each of its elements is also an element of the other set. 2 A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group.

WordNet
subset

n. a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set

Wikipedia
Subset

In mathematics, especially in set theory, a set A is a subset of a set B, or equivalently B is a superset of A, if A is "contained" inside B, that is, all elements of A are also elements of B. A and B may coincide. The relationship of one set being a subset of another is called inclusion or sometimes containment.

The subset relation defines a partial order on sets.

The algebra of subsets forms a Boolean algebra in which the subset relation is called inclusion.

Usage examples of "subset".

There were elements among the colonists who used genetic knowledge and manipulatory skills to enslave and breed the natives like beasts, doing some genetic tinkering to produce subsets of the basic form, lowering intelligence and inducing a docility that tended to result in a reduced lifespan for the six-legs so treated.

Following Lorentz, but with an aim that was general and not restricted to a subset of physics, Einstein set out to discover a system of transforms that would make this true.

The neopagan religious movement, with all its Wiccan and quasi-Wiccan subsets, finally realized that what it lacked was a certain coherence of doctrine.

Many different amino acid sequences can lead to proteins of similar shapes, so we can infer the structures of various proteins by studying a representative subset of proteins in detail.

That is, as strings twist and vibrate while meandering through the extended and curled-up dimensions, a small subset of their vast oscillatory repertoire consists of vibrations with spin equal to 1 or 2.

Then, who on the political side has influence in the program, of that set, who owes me the most, and of that subset, who's due here the soonest?

We have recently developed and refined a subset of DNA testing called RFLPS, which stands for restriction fragment length polymorphism.

One of the baby subsets shot down a chain of logic that started with the concept of illness and ended in the concept of calling a doctor.

There are probably other subsets that can communicate better than us but we're the subset that was on the logical pathway that led to you.

Some he thought must be the virus program, others various subsets of the network intelligence.

It investigated the problem using quick-thought, calving off subsets to track down and assimilate the data as fast as possible and in quick-thought that was fast indeed.

O’Brien continued, “within it are these irregular subsets of higher spikes, each followed by a subset of lower spikes.

These subsets are indicative of conscious conversation between this individual and another person.

Beta waves representing consciousness, lots of anxiety, and with subsets suggesting vigorous conversation.

No one will ever agree where the boundaries lie among these subsets of SF, least of all their practitioners.