Not all geniuses are engineers, but all engineers are geniuses. The set of all engineers is thus an, unfortunately proper, subset of all geniuses.
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Subset
Synonyms for "subset" (6 found)
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1 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 35 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- altçoxluq noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Bulgarian
1 entries- подмножество noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Catalan
1 entries- subconjunt noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 子集 noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Czech
1 entries- podmnožina noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Danish
1 entries- delmængde noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Dutch
1 entries- deelverzameling noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Estonian
1 entries- alamhulk noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Finnish
2 entries- osajoukko noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
- osajoukko noun (group contained in a larger group)
French
2 entries- sous-ensemble noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
- sous-ensemble noun (group contained in a larger group)
Georgian
1 entries- ქვესიმრავლე noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
German
2 entries- Teilmenge noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
- Untermenge noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Greek
1 entries- υποσύνολο noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Hebrew
1 entries- תת קבוצה noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Hindi
1 entries- उपसमुच्चय noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Hungarian
1 entries- részhalmaz noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Icelandic
1 entries- hlutmengi noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Irish
1 entries- fo-thacar noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Italian
2 entries- sottogruppo noun (group contained in a larger group)
- sottoinsieme noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Japanese
1 entries- 部分集合 noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Korean
1 entries- 부분집합 noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Macedonian
1 entries- подмно́жество noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- binkom noun (group contained in a larger group)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- подмножество noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Polish
2 entries- podgrupa noun (group contained in a larger group)
- podzbiór noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Portuguese
3 entries- subconjunto noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
- subconjunto noun (group contained in a larger group)
- subgrupo noun (group contained in a larger group)
Romanian
3 entries- subclasă noun (group contained in a larger group)
- subgrup noun (group contained in a larger group)
- submulțime noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Russian
2 entries- подгру́ппа noun (group contained in a larger group)
- подмно́жество noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Slovene
1 entries- podmnožica noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Spanish
1 entries- subconjunto noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Swedish
1 entries- delmängd noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Tagalog
1 entries- kubtangkas noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Ukrainian
1 entries- підмножина́ noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tập con noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
- tập hợp con noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
Welsh
3 entries- is-set noun (set whose elements are within another given set)
- is-set noun (group contained in a larger group)
- isgasgliad noun (group contained in a larger group)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
In American English, stoats are a subset of weasels, while in British English, they aren't.
Source: tatoeba (4458417)
Mathematics is just a subset of type theory.
Source: tatoeba (8297994)
Any simple graph can be treated as a subset of the set of all two-element subsets of the set of its vertices.
Source: tatoeba (10681253)
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