subsection
Speech parts
1. subsection - Noun
2. subsection - Verb
Meaning
A defined part of a section.
(law) A subpart of a legal document such as law.
Coordinate term: subparagraph
(taxonomy, zoology) An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
(taxonomy, botany) A taxonomic rank below the section, but above the species.
subsection (third-person singular simple present subsections, present participle subsectioning, simple past and past participle subsectioned)
To insert subsections (into some text, etc.).
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Examples
Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.
Every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause.
All he had to go by was the definition of the frigid zone as the latitudes north of the line where the celestial arctic circle was equal to the celestial Tropic of Cancer, the tropikos kuklos (refer to the next subsection).
Bibliography Books This subsection lists all books written by Atiyah; it omits a few books that he edited.
But if you take him at his word, what Biden is advocating is the forceful restructuring of society according to the irrational demands of a subsection of a tiny minority.
As pointed out in the subsection Units of selection, Dawkins says the gene is the fundamental unit of selection, and then points out that selection doesn't act directly upon the gene, but upon 'vehicles' or 'extended phenotypes'.