subcategory

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subcategory

noun subcategories · sub-category

  1. With respect to a given category; a narrower category. The moment subcategories of the overall population are denied rights, the rights of all are threatened.
  2. 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.

    Similar: child category, supercategory

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noun more narrow category

Portuguêssubcategoria
Françaissous-catégorie
DeutschUnterkategorie
Italianosottocategoria
Ελληνικάυποκατηγορία ypokatigoría
Русскийподкатегория podkategorija

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@misc{subcategory_2026,
  title = {subcategory},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/subcategory},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}