Usually means: Part of a larger set.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word subset:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. subset: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subset: Merriam-Webster
  3. subset: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subset: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subset: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subset: Vocabulary.com
  7. Subset, subset: Wordnik
  8. subset: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. subset: Wiktionary
  10. subset: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. subset: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. subset: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. subset: Dictionary.com
  14. subset: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Subset: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. subset: Rhymezone
  17. subset: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. subset: FreeDictionary.org
  19. subset: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. subset: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. subset: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. subset: CCI Computer
  2. subset: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. subset: Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Subset: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. subset: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. subset, subset: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (set theory, of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.
noun:  A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group.
verb:  (transitive) To take a subset of.
verb:  (transitive, computing, typography) To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.

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