Subordination may refer to *Subordination in a

hierarchy A hierarchy (from Ancient Greek, Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy ...

(in military, society, etc.) **

Insubordination Insubordination is the act of willfully disobeying a lawful order of one's superior. It is generally a punishable offense in hierarchical organizations such as the armed forces, which depend on people lower in the chain of command obeying orde ...

, disobedience *

Subordination (linguistics) In linguistics, subordination (abbreviated variously , , or ) is a principle of the hierarchical organization of linguistic units. While the principle is applicable in semantics, morphology, and phonology, most work in linguistics employs the term ...

Subordination (finance) Subordination in banking and finance refers to the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets. United States law Subordination of debt Subordination is the process by which a creditor is placed in a lower priority f ...

Subordination agreement A subordination agreement is a legal document Legal instrument is a legal term of art that is used for any formally executed written document that can be formally attributed to its author, records and formally expresses a legally enforceable ac ...

, a legal document used to deprecate the claim of one party in favor of another * Subordination (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse

In mathematics

* Littlewood subordination theorem * Subordinate partition of unity in

paracompact space In mathematics, a paracompact space is a topological space in which every open cover has an open refinement that is locally finite. These spaces were introduced by . Every compact space is paracompact. Every paracompact Hausdorff space is normal ...

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