subcategory

See also: sub-category

English

Alternative forms

• sub-category

Etymology

From sub- +‎ category.

Noun

subcategory (plural subcategories)

1. With respect to a given category; a narrower category.
   • 2024 August 8, Leslie Feinberg, “1952 court victory against anti-gay charges”, in Workers World‎^[1]:

     The moment subcategories of the overall population are denied rights, the rights of all are threatened.

2. (category theory) A subclass of a category which is itself a category, whose arrows are a restriction of the arrows of the parent category, and whose composition rule is a restriction of the parent category's.

   Synonym: child category

   Synonym: supercategory

Hypernyms

• category

Translations

more narrow category

• Czech: podkategorie f
• French: sous-catégorie (fr) f
• German: Unterkategorie
• Greek: υποκατηγορία (el) f (ypokatigoría)
• Icelandic: hlutríki n
• Irish: fochatagóir f
• Italian: sottocategoria f
• Russian: подкатегория (ru) (podkategorija)
• Turkish: alt kategori