See also: sub-category

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From sub- +‎ category.

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subcategory (plural subcategories)

  1. With respect to a given category; a narrower category.
    • 2024 August 8, Leslie Feinberg, “1952 court victory against anti-gay charges”, in Workers World[1]:
      The moment subcategories of the overall population are denied rights, the rights of all are threatened.
  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.
    Synonym: child category
    Synonym: supercategory

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