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Meaning of "subset" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBSET

subset  [ˈsʌbˌsɛt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBSET

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Subset is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUBSET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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.

Definition of subset in the English dictionary

The definition of subset in the dictionary is a set the members of which are all members of some given class: A is a subset of B is usually written A⊆B. Other definition of subset is a set within a larger set.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBSET


avocet
ˈævəˌsɛt
close-set
ˈkləʊsˌsɛt
Exocet
ˈɛksəʊˌsɛt
filmset
ˈfɪlmˌsɛt
handset
ˈhændˌsɛt
hard-set
ˈhɑːdˌsɛt
headset
ˈhɛdˌsɛt
kitset
ˈkɪtˌsɛt
moonset
ˈmuːnˌsɛt
offset
ˈɒfˌsɛt
onset
ˈɒnˌsɛt
outset
ˈaʊtˌsɛt
photoset
ˈfəʊtəʊˌsɛt
scilicet
ˈsɪlɪˌsɛt
sunset
ˈsʌnˌsɛt
thermoset
ˈθɜːməʊˌsɛt
toolset
ˈtuːlˌsɛt
twinset
ˈtwɪnˌsɛt
typeset
ˈtaɪpˌsɛt
videlicet
vɪˈdiːlɪˌsɛt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBSET

subseizure
subsellia
subsellium
subsense
subsensible
subsentence
subsequence
subsequent
subsequential
subsequently
subsequentness
subsere
subseries
subserve
subservience
subserviency
subservient
subserviently
subsessile
subshaft

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBSET

asset
basset
beset
box set
chipset
closet
corset
data set
Dorset
gusset
inset
jet set
jet-set
preset
proper subset
reset
set
Somerset
tea set
upset

Synonyms and antonyms of subset in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «subset» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBSET

Find out the translation of subset to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of subset from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «subset» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

subconjunto
570 millions of speakers

English

subset
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सबसेट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فرعية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подмножество
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

subconjunto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উপসেট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sous-ensemble
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Subset
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Teilmenge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サブセット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

집합
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Subset
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tập hợp con
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துணைக்குழு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपसंच
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alt küme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sottoinsieme
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podzbiór
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підмножина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

subset
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποσύνολο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

subset
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

delmängd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

undergruppe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of subset

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSET»

The term «subset» is very widely used and occupies the 16.671 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSET» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «subset» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «subset» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about subset

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8 QUOTES WITH «SUBSET»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word subset.
1
Janine Benyus
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.
2
Peter Coyote
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
3
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.
4
Raymond E. Feist
Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations.
5
Sam Harris
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
6
Guido van Rossum
If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.
7
Marilyn Tavenner
CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.
8
Jan C. Ting
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBSET»

Discover the use of subset in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to subset and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Subset Selection in Regression
Originally published in 1990, the first edition of Subset Selection in Regression filled a significant gap in the literature, and its critical and popular success has continued for more than a decade.
Alan Miller, 2002
2
Heuristic Subset Clustering for Consideration Set Analysis
Based on the clusters found by our algorithm, different classification models are built for each particular consideration set.
Ding Yuan, 2007
3
Subset Groupoids
Smarandache inner commutative subset groupoid, 50-5 Smarandache left alternative subset groupoid, 60-4 Smarandache Moufang groupoid, 18-22 Smarandache normal subset groupoid, 45-7 Smarandache P-subset groupoid, 58-9 ...
W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache
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A Unique Memory B Cell Subset Correlates with Adverse ...
Taken together, these results suggest that dysregulation of CD19 on B cells plays a role in the etiology and pathogenesis of SLE, and that CD19 hi cells represent an autoreactive memory B cell subset that plays an important role in the ...
Matilda Wray Nicholas, 2007
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Psychocomputational Models of Subset Principle Compliance in ...
Previous research has proposed that any model of language learning should use the Subset Principle to guide hypothesis selection when the language domain contains at least two languages such that one is a subset of the other (Gold, 1967; ...
Arthur Hoskey, 2008
6
Latin American maize germplasm conservation: Core subset ...
Other accessions selected in stage 2 but not in the upper 20% from stage 1 were incorporated in the final LAMP core subset, substituting them for index- selected accessions having either a lower selection index or the same race classification ...
Taba, S. (ed.)
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Integrated Feature Subset Selection/extraction with ...
Chapter. 2. BFSS: Boost. Feature. Subset. Selection. As discussed in Chapter 1, one class of typical approach of feature selection is to calculate some discriminative score using data associated with a single feature. Such discriminative scores ...
Xian Xu, 2006
8
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
3.90 Definition The subset sum problem (SUBSET-SUM) is the following: given a set {ai, 02, . . . ,an} of positive integers, called a knapsack set, and a positive integer s, determine whether or not there is a subset of the a.j that sum to s.
Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone, 1996
9
SQL: Practical Guide for Developers
Note that this is a subset query, since the set of ingredients supplied by a vendor is a subset of the ingredients used in the item. SQL does not provide a subset operator. Fortunately, we can combine SQL operators to evaluate subsets.
Michael J. Donahoo, Gregory David Speegle, 2005
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An Investigation of the Performance for Ordered Subset ...
The goal of the OSA is to determine the level of the continuous environmental factor, which provides maximum evidence of a difference in the mean levels of the outcome between the two gene levels for a given dichotomous gene factor.
William L. Welbourn (Jr), 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBSET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term subset is used in the context of the following news items.
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End of Commodities Supercycle? (Energy Subset)
About a decade ago, Goldman Sachs' Arjun Murti suggested an oil “superspike” might send prices to $105 a barrel. There were two primary reactions to this ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
2
Public Release: 15-Jul-2015 Subset of plasma cells represent …
The team proved that subset D cells were exclusively responsible for producing the measles- and mumps-specific antibodies in the blood of one of the older ... «EurekAlert, Jul 15»
3
Flightseeing tours becoming a lucrative subset of cruise industry
JUNEAU -- Small planes are becoming a cash cow for the cruise industry, including some of the biggest tour companies in the world, such as Holland America ... «Alaska Dispatch News, Jun 15»
4
ASCO Presentation Points to Clinically Relevant Mutations in Subset
On the other hand, a subset of the other two tumor types contained mutations such as ERBB2 amplification. Many of the targetable mutations in the tumors ... «GenomeWeb, Jun 15»
5
Public Release: 24-Apr-2015 Novel therapeutic candidate targets …
... candidate for a genomically defined subset of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with an aberrant fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 (FGFR4) pathway. «EurekAlert, Apr 15»
6
Public Release: 24-Apr-2015 Ledipasvir-sofosbuvir combination …
Public Release: 24-Apr-2015 Ledipasvir-sofosbuvir combination proves effective in subset of patients with chronic hepatitis C. Simple, ribavirin- and ... «EurekAlert, Apr 15»
7
'Preaching on Wax' Is an Introduction to a Neglected Subset of Early …
There is more to explore on both counts than Martin provides here, but he's opened a door onto a previously unexplored subset of early black pop, even if that ... «PopMatters, Apr 15»
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In Advanced Lung Cancer Subset, Agent Has 45% Response Rate
PHILADELPHIA — The programmed death (PD-1) inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck) has durable antitumor activity in advanced non-small cell lung ... «Medscape, Apr 15»
9
Researchers Uncover Molecular Signature to Predict Therapy …
Researchers Uncover Molecular Signature to Predict Therapy Response in Leukemia Patient Subset. Apr 01, 2015. |. Molika Ashford. Premium. NEW YORK ... «GenomeWeb, Apr 15»
10
Astronomers discover supernova subset which could allow for more …
NASA astronomers may have found a way to take more precise measurements of the distances between galaxies. Currently, astronomers use a certain type of ... «Gizmag, Mar 15»

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