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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 . ''See Lists of topics and Lists of basic topics.''
    - An area of knowledge;
    - The focus of a Course (education)|course of study or of a Class (education)|class at school;
    - The focus of a List of academic disciplines|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 (See Subject (discourse)).
- A '''person''' or entity ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority:
    - subject, in autocracy, a serf in feudal 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 Russia|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 called Resource 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 discourse Each an every topic you may talk about is taken as the subject .

See also


- Subject (discourse)
- Subject matter
- Subjective

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