subgroup
- noun
- /ˈsʌbˌɡroʊp/
- In addition to overall achievement, results are reported by subgroup, including race, gender, and family income.
- identify subgroups
- subgroup analysis
- population subgroups
There's a lower incidence in some subgroups of obesity.
- There's a lower incidence in some subgroups of obesity.
- That's not an African subgroup because the African subgroups have tribal names.
- You can, you can conceal the impact of small subgroups of vulnerable populations.
- You can use data to test materials on certain subgroups.
- Was and, and I guess was anybody a Soviet or were they always some subgroup within the Soviet Union?
- That's an important distinction because it becomes a way of differentiating subgroups within the community.
- So, you know, within the mental illness group there are many subgroups and there's stigma between these subgroups too.
- So, you know, there are certain, I would say, you know, sub communities or subgroups of people that have coalesced over the years.
- But it was a relatively small subgroup, let's say, that actually wanted to go through all the way and do further research with us.
- You can have community norms within smaller subgroups, but all those subgroups are centralised on platforms run by enormous, mostly American corporations.
- There's always been a subgroup of people that respond well to the sort of quirky dark comedies or just films that dive deep into that.
Examples
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The majority of children in this subgroup were identified with SLI as an IDEA disability category.
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The participation of underrepresented racial subgroups in STEM programs presents yet another picture.
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It's not every pregnant woman, it's just a subgroup of pregnant women who act like they are.
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So I think what you need is to identify those, those subgroups and work on those to see what progress you can make.
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For professors across various content areas, subgroups should be defined in ways that are meaningful.
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Broad sampling was superior for screening the low-achieving subgroup and for progress monitoring across groups.
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There's a lower incidence in some subgroups of obesity.
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That's an important distinction because it becomes a way of differentiating subgroups within the community.
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NCLB reporting typically identifies students as belonging to the SWD subgroup on a year-by-year basis.
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The research highlighted the different outcomes for each subgroup based on their socioeconomic status.
Synonyms
A group within a larger organization, like an orchestra or company team
A small group inside a larger group with different ideas that wants power
A more specific category inside a larger group, like a kind of virus
A smaller, more specific group within a larger category
A group within a larger population that share similar traits
A smaller group inside a larger group that shares certain features
A group inside a larger family of animals or languages
A small group of people inside a larger tribe with its own leader
A smaller group inside a larger social group with its own customs
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Subgroup is made of the prefix sub- meaning 'under' or 'below' and the common word group meaning 'things or people together'. So a subgroup is a smaller group 'under' or part of a larger group, like a team inside a big club.