subkind

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English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ kind.

Noun

subkind (plural subkinds)

  1. A specific type of kind; a subtype.
    • 1984, G. Schlageter, VLDB Endowment, Proceedings 1984 VLDB Conference: 10th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Morgan Kaufmann, page 21:
      The objects in the working kind may either be added to a an existing subkind of the associated kind or assigned as the initial value of a new permanent subkind created by the Add operation.
    • 1985, Donka Farkas, Intensional Descriptions and the Romance Subjunctive Mood, Taylor & Francis, page 30:
      In (36b) the subject NP refers to a subkind of the kind dogs that cannot bark and says that generally, the realizations of this subkind are expensive.
    • 1995, Gregory N. Carlson, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, The Generic Book, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 77:
      Let us call the taxonomic subkind relation T, with T(x,y) meaning that x is a subkind of y39.

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