Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SUBSET
subset
(noun) a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
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.
Usage notes
• (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).
Synonyms
• subclass
Antonyms
• superclass
• superset
Verb
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
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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