proper subset
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proper subset (plural proper subsets)
- (set theory) a set that is a subset of the set, but not equal to it.
- {2, 4, 5} is a proper subset of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, but {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} is not.
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a set that is a subset of but not equal to another set
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- proper subset on Wikipedia.Wikipedia