subquestion
- noun
- /sʌbˈkwɛsʧən/
- During the discussion, the professor posed several main questions, each followed by relevant subquestions to guide the students' understanding.
- three subquestions
Examples
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There were six interview questions: three central questions and three subquestions.
Academic text (2015) -
In WatsonPaths, we ask many subquestions using different ways of breaking down the scenario.
Academic text (2017) -
Most importantly, the way that subquestions are answered is completely general.
Academic text (2017) -
The grand tour question was then followed by minitour questions and a series of more specific subquestions.
Academic text (2007) -
We do not have robust and comprehensive ground truth for a sufficiently large set of our automatically generated subquestions.
Academic text (2017) -
We use a medical ontology to guide the process of formulating subquestions to ask Watson.
Academic text (2017) -
By asking the right subquestions and using the right corpus, we can apply WatsonPaths to any scenario-based question-answering problem.
Academic text (2017) -
The subquestions analyzed the involvement of administrators and organizational factors in telemedicine adoption and development.
Academic text (2015) -
To clarify the issue, he formulated a series of subquestions that examined the underlying assumptions of the primary question.
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The report included a main research question along with various subquestions to explore different aspects of the topic.
How Specific
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word subquestion starts with sub- meaning 'under' or 'below', as in submarine, and ends with question meaning 'a question'. So a subquestion is a smaller, supporting question that sits 'under' the main question to help explain it.