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subject

1. any branch of learning considered as a course of study

2. a person who lives under the rule of a monarch, government, etc.

3. an object, figure, scene, etc., as selected by an artist or photographer for representation

4. Philosophy

a. that which thinks or feels as opposed to the object of thinking and feeling; the self or the mind

b. a substance as opposed to its attributes

5. Music a melodic or thematic phrase used as the principal motif of a fugue, the basis from which the musical material is derived in a sonata-form movement, or the recurrent figure in a rondo

6. Logic

a. the term of a categorial statement of which something is predicated

b. the reference or denotation of the subject term of a statement. The subject of John is tall is not the name John, but John himself

7. being under the power or sovereignty of a ruler, government, etc.

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(programming)

subject - In subject-oriented programming, a subject is a collection of classes or class fragments whose class hierarchy models its domain in its own, subjective way. A subject may be a complete application in itself, or it may be an incomplete fragment that must be composed with other subjects to produce a complete application. Subject composition combines class hierarchies to produce new subjects that incorporate functionality from existing subjects.