subsumption
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[edit]- Rhymes: -ʌmpʃən
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[edit]subsumption (countable and uncountable, plural subsumptions)
- The act of subsuming.
- 2023, Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors, Solaris (2024), page 330:
- Phone calls that are instantly obeyed, ringing sounds followed by apparently involuntary movements of the limbs, the subsumption of the hearer’s will in the caller’s design.
- Something subsumed.
- (logic) The premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term.
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