Subsumption may refer to:
A minor premise in symbolic logic (see syllogism) The Liskov substitution principle in object-oriented programming Subtyping in programming language theory Subsumption architecture in robotics A subsumption relation in category theory, semantic networks and linguistics, also known as a "hyponym-hypernym relationship" (Is-a) Subsumption (Marxism), including the concepts of formal and real subsumption Theta-subsumption, a decidable entailment relation between clauses