sub|sump|tion

sub|sump|tion
sub|sump|tion «suhb SUHMP shuhn», noun.
1. a) the act or process of subsuming. b) the state of being subsumed.
2. a) Logic. a proposition subsumed under another; minor premise. b) an assumption.
[< New Latin subsumptio, -onis < subsumere; see etym. under subsume (Cf.subsume)]

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