From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Mathssubsetsub‧set /ˈsʌbset/ noun [countable]HMa group of people or things that is part of a larger group of people or thingssubset ofa small subset of the city’s immigrant populationExamples from the Corpussubset• The set of all possibilities clearly includes, as a subset, all possible values that could ever exist in any universe.• You may inspect either a subset or all of your oldest 16 mailmessages.• This may be based on the corevocabulary, or a subset thereof.• An essentialprerequisite for this work will be the definition of the directly implementable subsets of occam.• The clinicalsignificance of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodypositive and negativesubsets in both groups of patients thus remains unexplained.• In the subset of oral studies, ECGs were obtained in 1733 of 2786 patients with 24,000 attacks.• The subsets of A form a naturallattice.