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
subsume (third-person singular simple present subsumes, present participle subsuming, simple past and past participle subsumed)
- 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
- To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate
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Translations
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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