- (subsume) contain or include; "This new system subsumes the old one"
- (subsume) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
- (subsume) To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else; To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate
- (Subsume) The incorporation of an idea, concept, or skill in a more complex framework (e.g. using parts of speech to learn the structure of sentences and to master sentence fluency).
- (subsume) include under a rule
- (subsume) verb - 1. to include within a larger class, group, order, etc. 2. to show (an idea, instance, etc.) to be covered by a rule, principle, etc.
- (subsumes(+General, +Specific)) is true when Specific is an instance of General. It will bind variables in General (but not those in Specific) so that General becomes identical to Specific.