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Subsumption

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of subsuming.

n. Something subsumed.

n. Logic The minor premise of a syllogism.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the act of subsuming, or something subsumed

n. The premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of subsuming, or of including under another.

n. That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of subsuming; the act of mentioning as an instance of a rule or an example of a class; the act of including under something more general (and, in the strict use of the word, something already considered), as a particular under a universal, or a species under a genus.

n. That which is subsumed; the minor premise of a syllogism, when stated after the major premise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. incorporating something under a more general category

n. the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion)

Word Usage

"Another strategy is to remove more specific clauses in the presence of more general ones by a process known as subsumption (Robinson 1965a)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

categorisation classification sorting categorization premise

Cross Reference

subsumption of the libel

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