OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36103

subgroup

/ˈsʌbˌɡɹuːp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
subgrupo
A group within a larger group; a group whose members are some, but not all, of the members of a larger group.
1998, Robert A. Johnson, Prevalence of Substance Use Among Racial and Ethnic Subgroups in the United States, 1991-1993, Department of Health and Human Services, page B-11, Based on…
The most important application of dysprosium and terbium, which belong to a subgroup known as the heavy rare earths, is in devices called neodymium boron magnets, or neo magnets fo…
subgrupo
A subset H of a group G that is itself a group and has the same binary operation as G.
A subgroup H of an algebraic group G is called algebraic if H is an algebraic subvariety of G. Algebraic subgroups defined over k (as algebraic subvarieties) are called k-subgroups…
Much of the information about a group can be gleaned from a study of its subgroups. For these reasons it is important to study the subgroup structure of the almost simple groups, a…
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