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sub·set (sub′set′)

noun

a mathematical set in which every element in the set is also contained in a larger set or in an equal set the even numbers are a subset of the whole numbers

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subset Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • corpus: Baseline: given fixed subsets of the training corpus of increasing size ( e.g.

Converse of object

  • extract: These N sets could be brought together by a final consolidation stage which extracted a single subset from the N sets of documents.

Adjective modifier

  • non-empty: A total ordering is called a well-ordering if, in addition, every non-empty subset of X has a minimal element.

Noun used with modifier

  • T-cell: The HLA system and T-cell subsets in Bell's palsy.
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