Associations to the word «Subset»

Wiktionary

SUBSET, noun. (set theory) With respect to another set, a set such that each of its elements is also an element of the other set.
SUBSET, noun. A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group.
SUBSET CLASSIFIER, noun. (mathematics) A set which serves as the codomain of a characteristic function.
SUBSET CLASSIFIER, noun. (category theory) (uncountable) The subobject classifier restricted to the category Set.

Dictionary definition

SUBSET, noun. A set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin