subsume

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.

/səbˈsjuːm/ /səbˈsuːm/ En-us-subsume.oga

subsume subsumes subsuming subsumed

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“to take”). Compare English consume.

comprise colligate

subsumation subsumption

subsumability subsumable

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