Meaning & use
subset
A smaller group or part of a larger set, whose members all belong to that larger set.
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Only a small subset of the survey respondents had ever traveled abroad.
In mathematics, the set of even numbers is a subset of the set of all integers.
A note on using this word
Subset is used in everyday writing for any smaller portion of a group, but has a precise technical meaning in mathematics and set theory.
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