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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /səbˈsjuːm/
• (米国発音) IPA: /səbˈsuːm/
• 韻: -uːm

動詞

subsume (third-person singular simple present subsumes, present participle subsuming, simple past and past participle subsumed)

1. (transitive) To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.

   Near-synonym: comprise

   • March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary

     A few years later (in a paper published by the Royal Society in 1970, by which time Hawking had become a fellow “for distinction in science” of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), he and I joined forces to publish an even more powerful theorem which subsumed almost all the work in this area that had gone before.

   • 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;

2. (transitive) To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Synonym: colligate

関連する語

• subsumable
• subsumation
• subsumption