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  Subject may refer to:

In knowledge and education

  • An area of knowledge
    Knowledge

    Knowledge is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation....
    , a topic, an area of interest or study
  • Course (education)
    Course (education)

    In U.S. education, a course is a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term, is led by one or more instructors , has a fixed roster of students, and gives each student a grade and academic Credit ....
    , a unit of academic instruction
    • List of academic disciplines
      List of academic disciplines

      An academia discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge which is teaching and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned society and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong....
  • Subject (grammar)
    Subject (grammar)

    The subject is one of the two main constituent every sentence can be divided into, according to a tradition that can be tracked back to Aristotle....
    , one of two main constituent parts of a sentence
    • Subject case or nominative case, the grammatical case for a noun
  • Subject term or index term, in information retrieval, a descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records
  • Research subject, an organism (human or otherwise) that is observed for purposes of research


In philosophy

  • Subject (philosophy)
    Subject (philosophy)

    In philosophy, a subject is a being which has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness or a relationship with another entity . A subject is an observer and an object is a thing observed....
    , a being which has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness or a relationship with another entity
  • Subject-object problem
    Subject-object problem

    The subject-object problem is a longstanding Philosophy issue. It arises from the notion that the world consists of object which are perception or otherwise acted upon by subject ....
    , the issue of how actors or observers relate to things which are observed or acted upon
  • Subject-object based metaphysics
    Subject-object based metaphysics

    Subject-Object Based Metaphysics is terminology used by the author Robert M. Pirsig with respect to the historically dominant form of metaphysics in Western philosophy....
    , author Robert M. Pirsig's term for the dominant view of metaphysics in Western philosophy
  • Subject-SUBJECT consciousness
    Subject-Subject Consciousness

    Subject-SUBJECT consciousness, a concept proposed by Harry Hay believed by Hay to be queer people's unique perspective on the world. Hay saw heterosexual society existing in a subject-object dynamic; where men, who had the culturally acceptable power, saw only themselves as subject and therefore higher than women, who were treated as objects...
    , a concept proposed by Harry Hay to describe non-heterosexual relationship dynamics
  • Hypokeimenon
    Hypokeimenon

    Hypokeimenon is a term in metaphysics which literally means the "underlying thing" .To search for the hypokeimenon is to search for that substance which persists in a thing going through change?its essence being....
     or subiectum, in metaphysics, the essential being of a thing


In government, politics, and law

  • A serf
    SERF

    A spin-exchange relaxation-free magnetometer achieves very high magnetic field sensitivity by monitoring a high density vapor of alkali metal atoms precessing in a near-zero magnetic field....
    , in feudal society
  • A citizen
    • British subject
      British subject

      In British nationality law, the term British subject has at different times had different meanings. The current definition of the term British subject is contained in the British Nationality Act 1981....
      , a British citizen
    • Subject of the state
      Subject of the state

      Subject of the state was the official term used in Nazi Germany to designate those who did not qualify for full German citizenship under the Nuremberg laws of 1935 ....
      , a person who did not qualify for full citizenship in Nazi Germany
  • Federal subjects of Russia
    Federal subjects of Russia

    Russia is a federation which consists of 83 subjects. These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation?two delegates each?in the Federation Council of Russia ....
    , the basic subdivision of the Russian Federation
  • Subject of international law, nations and organizations that participate in the "law of nations"
  • Subject of labor
    Subject of labor

    Subject of labor is a concept in Marxism political economy that refers to "everything to which man's labor is directed." The subject of labor may be materials provided directly by nature like timber or coal, or materials that have been modified by labor....
    , a concept in Marxist political economy that refers to "everything to which man's labor is directed"


In computation

  • Subjects (programming)
    Subjects (programming)

    In computer programming within the subject-oriented programming Programming paradigm, subjects are a way to separation of concernss. For example, in a Shape class with two methods Draw and Move, each method would be considered a subject....
    , core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm
  • Subject (access control), in computer security, an entity that can perform actions that may require authorization
  • An element in the Resource Description Framework
    Resource Description Framework

    The Resource Description Framework is a family of World Wide Web Consortium specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. It has come to be used as a general method for conceptual description or modeling, of information that is implemented in web resources; using a variety of syntax formats....
    , a family of World Wide Web Consortium specifications


In media

  • Subject (album)
    Subject (album)

    Subject is Rhythm and blues singer Dwele's 2003 debut album, released on Virgin Records.Track listing...
     (2003), by rhythm and blues singer Dwele
  • The Subject Bible
    The Subject Bible

    The Subject Bible is an edition of the King James Bible which combines a traditional Bible text with a topical Bible in a single volume.This Bible was prepared by Dr....
    , an edition of the King James Bible including a topical Bible
  • "Subjects for Contemplation" ("Upajjhatthana Sutta"), a Buddhist discourse
  • In music, the first melodic fragment of a fugue
    Fugue

    In music, a fugue is a type of counterpoint composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of melody, normally referred to as "voices"....


See also

  • Subject matter
    Subject matter

    Subject matter may refer to:* patentable subject matter , defining whether patent protection is available* subject-matter jurisdiction, determining the kinds of claims or disputes over which a court has jurisdiction...
     (disambiguation)
  • Subjective
    Subjective

    Subjective may refer to:* Subjectivity, a subject's perspective, particularly feelings, beliefs, and desires*Subjective experience, the sensory buzz and awareness associated with a conscious mind...