subset
pronunciation
How to pronounce subset in British English:
UK [ˈsʌbset]
How to pronounce subset in American English:
US [ˈsʌbˌsɛt]
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- Noun:
- a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set
Word Origin
- subset (n.)
- also sub-set, "subordinate set," 1897, originally in mathematics, from sub- + set (n.1).
Example
- 1. Even the famous acid test does not prove too much , since it tests only a subset of the html specification .
- 2. One way to do it is to examine every possible subset of 16 clues to see if any of them lead to a unique solution .
- 3. In a pilot study , dr tourassi and her colleagues tested whether a subset of high-entropy mammograms would work as effectively as using the whole database .
- 4. By using a subset of wikipedia 's hierarchy of terms , mspoke has been able to get an immediate foundation for its own taxonomy and quickly understand the content of articles it finds around the web .
- 5. " We don 't know why plumage colors are confined to this subset , " stoddard said . " The out of gamut colors may be impossible to make with available mechanisms or they may be disadvantageous . "