Subordination may refer to
*Subordination in a
hierarchy
A hierarchy (from 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 is an important ...
(in military, society, etc.)
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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 order ...
, disobedience
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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 ter ...
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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 ...
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Subordination agreement, a legal document used to deprecate the claim of one party in favor of another
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Subordination (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
In mathematics
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Littlewood subordination theorem In mathematics, the Littlewood subordination theorem, proved by J. E. Littlewood in 1925, is a theorem in operator theory and complex analysis. It states that any holomorphic univalent self-mapping of the unit disk in the complex numbers that fi ...
* 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 norm ...
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