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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A group forming a type within a larger type.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In biology, a more special type included in a more general one.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A group of specific things within a larger, more general group.
  2. n. computing The data type represented by a subclass.
  3. v. To categorise as a subtype.

Examples

  • “Possibly my favorite subtype is the SFF book that taps into capital-L Literary stories and frameworks and reimagines them.”

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  • “But, yeah, the points seem to be a little off – the dragon subtype is mentioned as a “maybe-makes - you-loose-sanitiy-critter”, if they are not all too common in your campaign. misterecho”

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  • “It is only effective against a certain subtype of breast cancer, those that have too many HER2-receptors on their surfaces.”

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  • “I represent the H1N1 subtype, which is responsible for the Russian Flu (killed 1 million) and the Spanish Flu (killed 100 million).”

    Roy Rivenburg: Swine Flu Virus Speaks to Media

  • “However, she cautioned that there was no guarantee of it being effective against the local strain, known as the subtype C strain.”

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  • “From that information, the app tells patients what specific cancer "subtype" they have as determined by an expert panel.”

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  • “In addition to the IATs, Cox added questions that ask respondents to compare Obama to other blacks to measure whether people "subtype" him or, in other words, see him as a positive exception to their normal prejudices regarding blacks.”

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  • “The CDC asks states to report confirmed flu deaths by age group but not by subtype, meaning H1N1 deaths are not necessarily tracked.”

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  • “The current phase of the WHO Global Influenza Preparedness is Level 3 Pandemic alert: a new influenza virus subtype is causing disease in humans, but is not yet spreading efficiently and sustainably among humans.”

    NASA Swine Flu Health Alert - NASA Watch

  • “Interestingly, there is a strong correlation between the specific type of RET gene alteration and the subtype of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2).”

    Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2

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