Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SUBSET

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Definitions of SUBSET

1. A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group.
2. (set theory, of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.
3. (transitive) To take a subset of.
4. (transitive, computing, typography) To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.

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Examples of Using SUBSET in a Sentence

• Similarly, the set of algebraic (real) numbers is countably infinite and has Lebesgue measure zero as a subset of the real numbers, and in that sense, almost all real numbers are transcendental.
• In number theory, an arithmetic, arithmetical, or number-theoretic function is generally any function f(n) whose domain is the positive integers and whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
• Projective cone, the union of all lines that intersect a projective subspace and an arbitrary subset of some other disjoint subspace.
• It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant.
• In mathematics, specifically general topology, compactness is a property that seeks to generalize the notion of a closed and bounded subset of Euclidean space.
• Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
• The question of which scope of a subset of DNA (that is, how large a segment of DNA) constitutes a unit of selection is the question that governs whether cistrons are the same thing as genes.
• The CLS, a subset of the CTS, are rules to which components developed with/for the supported languages must adhere.
• A holomorphic function is a complex function that is differentiable at every point of some open subset of the complex plane.
• An (N, M, D, K, e)-disperser is a bipartite graph with N vertices on the left side, each with degree D, and M vertices on the right side, such that every subset of K vertices on the left side is connected to more than (1 − e)M vertices on the right.
• The sequential subset of the Erlang language supports eager evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing.
• It is a subset of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) on the GSM network and improves upon it offering speeds close to 3G technology, hence the name 2.
• It states that in any partially ordered set, every totally ordered subset is contained in a maximal totally ordered subset, where "maximal" is with respect to set inclusion.
• Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture which involves growing plants, usually crops or medicinal plants, without soil, by using water-based mineral nutrient solutions in an artificial environment.
• It supports IPv6, multiple servers and SSL, and a subset of UTF-8 (characters contained in ISO-8859-1) with an unofficial patch.
• KL1 is an implementation of Flat GHC (a subset of the Guarded Horn Clauses language by Kazunori Ueda), making it a parallelised Prolog variant.
• In digital signal processing, linear prediction is often called linear predictive coding (LPC) and can thus be viewed as a subset of filter theory.
• In mathematics, a filter or order filter is a special subset of a partially ordered set (poset), describing "large" or "eventual" elements.
• It borrowed many features from ALGOL 68 but was designed for systems programming (machine-oriented programming), with a subset of operations being reserved for higher-level usage.
• In probability theory, an event is a set of outcomes of an experiment (a subset of the sample space) to which a probability is assigned.

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