With respect to a given category; a narrower category.
Used in a Sentence
subcategory
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for subcategory.
Editorial note
IP is a subcategory of intangible personal property, which is a subcategory of personal property, which is a subcategory of property.
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Quick take
With respect to a given category; a narrower category.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of subcategory gathered in one view.
(category theory) A subclass of a category which is itself a category, whose arrows are a restriction of the arrows of the parent category, and whose composition rule is a restriction of the parent category's.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for subcategory.
noun
With respect to a given category; a narrower category.
noun
(category theory) A subclass of a category which is itself a category, whose arrows are a restriction of the arrows of the parent category, and whose composition rule is a restriction of the parent category's.
Example sentences
IP is a subcategory of intangible personal property, which is a subcategory of personal property, which is a subcategory of property.
This is a subcategory of Set obviously and it also comes with much more interesting structure.
Under DSM-V, Asperger's was rolled into ASD and lost it's classification as a subcategory.
One of the leading hypotheses is that omega-6 fat - which is a subcategory of polyunsaturated - is very very bad for you.
Remember, the whole world of VC is a subcategory of private equity.
Perhaps I'll create a subcategory for textbook-based articles (like Tae Kim) and original articles.
For example if there's a subcategory column, I want it to be hierarchial.
I think the desktop form factor is going away, but what replaces it is not so much web as it is responsive / adaptive, and web is a subcategory of that, with mobile being another.
If we have a society don't like ads (perhaps a subcategory: intrusive ads, offensive ads, loud/bright/aggressive ads, extremely large ads that clutter our cityscape), we could simply ban those categories with law.
Quote examples
Security holes are a subcategory of "things a program can do, but shouldn't be able to do".
Almost all examples of "unintelligible" art fall into some subcategory of High Modernism.
This is true in the sense that intellectual property is a subcategory of intangible personal property which is a subcategory of personal property, which is a different and mutually exclusive subcategory of "property" from real property.
So a single-entity dominating the brick-and-mortar chain subcategory is hardly a "monopoly".
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use subcategory in a sentence?
IP is a subcategory of intangible personal property, which is a subcategory of personal property, which is a subcategory of property.
What does subcategory mean?
With respect to a given category; a narrower category.
What part of speech is subcategory?
subcategory is commonly used as noun.