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"Subsume" Definition

verb-transitive

To classify, include, or incorporate in a more comprehensive category or under a general principle: "The evolutionarily later always subsumes and includes the evolutionarily earlier” ( Frederick Turner).
To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.

verb

To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else.
Source: Wiktionary
To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate.
Source: Wiktionary
Contain or include.
Source: Wordnet
Consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle.
Source: Wordnet
To include or place within something larger or more comprehensive encompass as a subordinate or component element.

In logic, to state (a case) under a general rule; instance (an object or objects) as belonging to a class under consideration.

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