[səbˈsjuːm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- include or absorb (something) in something else
(e.g: most of these phenomena can be subsumed under two broad categories)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘subjoin, add’): from medieval Latin subsumere, from sub- ‘from below’ + sumere ‘take’. The current sense dates from the early 19th century