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Subsume vs Subsumer - What's the difference?

subsume | subsumer |

As a verb subsume

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

As a noun subsumer is

one who, or that which, subsumes.

subsume

English

Verb

(subsum)
  • To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else.
  • * 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;
  • To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate
  • subsumer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, subsumes.
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