"subcategory" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: subcategories [plural]
Etymology: sub- + category Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|sub|category}} sub- + category Head templates: {{en-noun}} subcategory (plural subcategories)
  1. With respect to a given category, a more narrow category. Translations (more narrow category): podkategorie [feminine] (Czech), sous-catégorie [feminine] (French), Unterkategorie (German), υποκατηγορία (ypokatigoría) [feminine] (Greek), hlutríki [neuter] (Icelandic), fochatagóir [feminine] (Irish), sottocategoria [feminine] (Italian), alt kategori (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-subcategory-en-noun-tI1ivpxI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with sub- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with sub-: 75 25 Disambiguation of 'more narrow category': 62 38
  2. (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 Categories (topical): Category theory
    Sense id: en-subcategory-en-noun-nuQuMFmS Topics: category-theory, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: child category, sub-category Hypernyms: category

Inflected forms

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