Complete Definition of "subsume"

English

Verb
en-verb|subsumes|subsuming|subsumed

  1. To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.

#* 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;

Translations
trans-top|to place under another as belonging to it
Portuguese: t|pt|classificar, t+|pt|incluir
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