subset
(noun) a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set
Source: WordNet® 3.1
subset (plural subsets)
(set theory, of a set S) A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.
The set is a both a subset and a proper subset of while the set is a subset of but not a proper subset of .
A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group.
• (set theory)
The subset relation is denoted ⊆ (⊂ for proper subset), and one writes A ⊆ B for "A is a subset of B".
It is permissible for A to contain no elements: the empty set is a subset of every set (including itself).
• subclass
• superclass
• superset
subset (third-person singular simple present subsets, present participle subsetting, simple past and past participle subsetted)
(transitive) To take a subset of.
(transitive, computing, typography) To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.
Source: Wiktionary
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
