Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group forming a type within a larger type.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, a more special type included in a more general one.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
group ofspecific things within a larger, moregeneral group. - noun computing The
data type represented by asubclass . - verb To categorise as a subtype.
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Examples
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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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Possibly my favorite subtype is the SFF book that taps into capital-L Literary stories and frameworks and reimagines them.
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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.
Medpundit 2005
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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).
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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.
SFGate: Top News Stories By MARCUS WOHLSEN 2011
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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.
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