Concept cluster: Communication > Subordination
n
Abbreviation of adjunct. [An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.]
n
(grammar) The condition of being an adjunct.
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The manner of being arranged.
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An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
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(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
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(programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
adj
Subsidiary, incidental.
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(programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
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(physics, engineering) The rate at which something is counted, measured as how many times it is observed in a unit of time.
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(economics) The separation of work into different categories or tasks; each category or task being carried out by different groups of workers.
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(figuratively, business) The fundamental values or vision of an organization.
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Abbreviation of extension. [The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase]
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(computing) A type of queue data structure in which the oldest added items are retrieved first.
adj
Abbreviation of inferior. [Of low rank, standard or quality.]
n
(cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
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The act or process by which something is organised.
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(computing) An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a part of such key; this is a violation of second normal form.
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(computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
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a partitioning of something in a different manner
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(grammar) Abbreviation of substantive. [Part of a text that carries the meaning, such as words and their ordering.]
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Arrangement in a sequence.
n
A general type.
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Alternative spelling of subcategory [With respect to a given category, a more narrow category.]
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Alternative spelling of submodel [A distinct part of a larger model]
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(syntax) The word which does so.
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A subsidiary clause in a legal contract etc.
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A derivation from something previously derived.
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A detachment forming part of a larger detachment.
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Alternative form of sub-element [A subordinate or secondary element.]
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Something subjoined to another
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Something subjoined.
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A subordinate modifier
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A trait, at a lower level of biological organization, that acts together with other such traits to affect or determine characteristics at a higher level of biological organization.
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subproposition
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A requirement making up part of a greater requirement.
v
(transitive) To take a subset of.
adj
Auxiliary or supplemental.
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(lexicography and grammar) Abbreviation of substantive. [Part of a text that carries the meaning, such as words and their ordering.]
v
(computing, transitive) To take as a substring.
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plural of subst.; abbreviation of substantives.
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plural of subst.; abbreviation of substantives.
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Something subsumed.
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An entity comprising several lesser entities.
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(transactional analysis) A social interaction.

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