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subset

Speech parts

1. subset - Noun

2. subset - Verb

Meaning

(set theory, of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.
The set of integers is a subset of the set of real numbers.
The set



{
a
,
b
}


{\displaystyle \lbrace a,b\rbrace }

is a both a subset and a proper subset of



{
a
,
b
,
c
}


{\displaystyle \lbrace a,b,c\rbrace }

while the set



{
a
,
b
,
c
}


{\displaystyle \lbrace a,b,c\rbrace }

is a subset of



{
a
,
b
,
c
}


{\displaystyle \lbrace a,b,c\rbrace }

but not a proper subset of



{
a
,
b
,
c
}


{\displaystyle \lbrace a,b,c\rbrace }

.

A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group.
We asked a subset of the population of the town for their opinion.

(transitive) To take a subset of.

(transitive, computing, typography) To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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A3D uses a subset of the actual in-game 3D world data to accurately model the location of both direct (A3Dspace) and reflected (A3Dverb) sound streams (A3D 2.0 can perform up to 60 first-order reflections). Source: Internet

According to police, Wade, allegedly a ranking member of the Sex Money Murder (SMM) subset of the Bloods street gang, is a leader of the drug trafficking organization DTO. Source: Internet

A complete set of cards is called a pack (UK English), deck (US English), or set (Universal), and the subset of cards held at one time by a player during a game is commonly called a hand. Source: Internet

A curve that is contained completely within the interior zone of another represents a subset of it. Source: Internet

A few literary researchers, for example, Mohammad-Ali Foroughi and Farzaneh Aghaeipour citation have selected and published a subset of the quatrains believed to be original using various research methods. Source: Internet

A guideline created by the Japanese Ministry of Education, the list of kyōiku kanji ("education kanji", a subset of jōyō kanji ), specifies the 1,006 simple characters a child is to learn by the end of sixth grade. Source: Internet

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