- Subject
Subject may refer to:
*An area of interest, also called a "topic " meaning ,"thing you are talking or discussing about ."It can also be termed as the area of discussion . "SeeLists of topics andLists of basic topics ."
**An area ofknowledge ;
**The focus of a course of study or of a class at school;
**The focus of a field of study;
*subject (grammar) , one of two main constituents of a sentence.
**subject case , grammatical case for a noun (nominative case);
*subject (philosophy) , being which has experiences or a relationship with another entity or "object".
*The "subiectum" or "hypokeimenon " in philosophical idealism.
*research subject , organism (human or otherwise) that is observed for purposes of research;
**human subject research (HSR), use of human beings as research subjects;
**subject-expectancy effect , in science experiments, bias by subjects toward the expected results;
*What a discourse or a document is about (SeeSubject (discourse) ).*A person or entity ruled over by another, especially a
monarch or state authority:
**subject, inautocracy , aserf infeudal society;
**British subject , term concerning British nationality;
**generally,citizen of a nation where there is no separate legal definition of "subject";
**subject of the state , person who did not qualify for full citizenship in Nazi Germany;*
federal subject , the basic subdivision of the Russian Federation. Each federal subject is a constituent region of the federation.
*subject of international law , nations and organizations that participate in the "law of nations".Subject may also be:
*An element in the method of modeling information calledResource Description Framework
*Subject heading , standardized set of subject headings for use in bibliographic records
*subject of labor , concept in Marxist political economy that refers to "everything to which man's labor is directed."
*subject term , essence of the topic of a document (also index term or descriptor) in Information Retrieval
*subjects (programming) , core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm*In music, the first melodic fragment of a
fugue in culture:
*Subject (album) , 2003 debut album by R&B singer Dwele
*The Subject Bible , edition of the King James Bible including a topical Bible
*Subject-object based metaphysics , author Robert M. Pirsig's term for the dominant view of metaphysics in Western philosophy.
*subject-object problem , philosophical issue of how subjects relate to objects.
*Subject-Subject Consciousness , concept proposed by Harry Hay
*The Upajjhatthana Sutta ("Subjects for Contemplation "), Buddhist discourseEach an every topic you may talk about is taken as the subject .
ee also
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Subject (discourse)
*Subject matter
*Subjective
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