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[ suhb-groop ] / ˈsʌbˌgrup /
nouna subordinate group; a division of a group. Chemistry. a division of a group in the periodic table. Mathematics. a subset of a group that is closed under the group operation and in which every element has an inverse in the subset. Origin of subgroupFirst recorded in 1835–45; sub- + group Words nearby subgroupsubgingival curettage, subgingival space, subglacial, subglossal, subgrade, subgroup, subgrundation, subgum, subha, subhalide, subharmonic Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for subgroupI think one of the main issues would be that there may be a subgroup of people who may run into problems with compulsive use. Does Porn Cause Brain Shrinkage In Men?|Emily Shire|May 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST It means treating women not as some alien species or subgroup. What the GOP Can Learn from the NFL’s Outreach to Women|Kristen Soltis Anderson|January 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST There's a subgroup that both attends and mocks, but it's tiny. World to Davos: Will You Admit You Screwed Up?|David Frum|January 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST An Islamist subgroup – the Brigade of Islam – also claimed responsibility, but the two stories are not incompatible. Richard Spencer: What's Next in Syria|The Telegraph|July 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
If improvements were long confined to one subgroup, they might send labor into other subgroups and even into other general groups. Essentials of Economic Theory|John Bates Clark It belongs to a subgroup and is a product of the mores of a subgroup. Folkways|William Graham Sumner New Georgia Island, the main member of the subgroup, is 50 miles long (northwest to southeast) and from five to 30 miles wide. Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands|Carleton J. Phillips The totality of motions which leave a point A unchanged forms a subgroup. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6|Various On the other hand, a subgroup of the group of motions which leaves a line or a plane unaltered is a mixed group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6|Various
British Dictionary definitions for subgroup
nouna distinct and often subordinate division of a group a mathematical group whose members are members of another group, both groups being subject to the same rule of combination Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |