subsume

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (transitive) To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
  2. (transitive) To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/səbˈsjuːm/
Etimologie (Engels)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“I take”). Compare English consume.

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