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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 of study or of a class at school;
  • The focus of a 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 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 (access control), in computer security, an entity that can perform actions that may need to be authorized in a computer system.

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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