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  • noun mathematics A subset of a universe

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From sub- +‎ universe

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Examples

  • And again, that price's becoming a running plot element in the BND Amazing title will keep the storytelling error in front of the reader irrespective of the quality of the BND arcs asthey invent their own businessand play out their own subthemes, metaphorical treatments and variants of the classic Lee/Ditko formulation, and constellate their own subuniverse of plot points.

    A dumb idea … or the dumbest idea? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • Each Set universe (and so far there is one, inconsistently containing itself, but later we shall have some sort of hierarchy) has a propositional subuniverse Prop, with an explicit embedding.

    Planet Haskell Conor 2010

  • Each Set universe (and so far there is one, inconsistently containing itself, but later we shall have some sort of hierarchy) has a propositional subuniverse Prop, with an explicit embedding.

    Planet Haskell 2010

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