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English
Etymology
From sub- + kind.
Noun
subkind (plural subkinds)
- 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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