subspecialty

noun

Definition of subspecialtynext
as in subfield

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Recent Examples of subspecialty So, hepatology is a subspecialty under gastroenterology.5 Gastroenterology vs Hepatology Specialist appointments can be hard to find. — Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024 The niche subspecialty demands delicate hands, unflappable focus, and a nuanced understanding of developmental biology. — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024 The company is a market leader in subspecialty teleradiology and provides services for outpatient imaging centers, orthopedic practices, university healthcare systems, and professional sports teams. — Andrew Gaudet, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024 The essays remain thoroughly entertaining performances—eviscerating mockery being a Wilson subspecialty—despite failing to answer either question satisfactorily. — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for subspecialty
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subspecialty
  1. subfield
  2. scope
  3. profession
  4. amplitude
  5. breadth
  6. width
  7. extent
  8. ambit
Noun
  • In a paper describing her team’s analysis of 511 other papers, Ghassemi’s team reported that machine learning papers in healthcare were reproducible far less often than in other machine learning subfields.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The researchers who invoke oracles work in a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory.
    — Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
Definition of subfield
Noun
  • Their worlds feel just as grand in scope as famously massive games like The Elder Scrolls — presenting lush alien lands filled with tons of diverse creatures and wildlife, and hundreds of individual NPCs that often have unique stories to tell.
    — Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Kickstart Your Day with The Morning Jolt The practice of individual judges, in locales favorable to the litigants, issuing injunctions that are nationwide in scope and affect parties not before the courts raises many grave objections.
    — The Editors, National Review, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of scope
Noun
  • This profession provides a career that can support a family for a lifetime.
    — Ryan Dohrn, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • In a world where so many are facing daily struggles in their lives, the theme speaks to the core of our profession: the need to transform compassion into tangible action and produce positive, lasting results.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of profession
Noun
  • By measuring the difference in the amplitude, meteorologists could extract the data necessary to track rainfall using the signal processing algorithms.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The researchers examined three key eye measurements before and after spaceflight: ocular rigidity, which reflects the stiffness of eye tissue, intraocular pressure, the fluid pressure inside the eye, and ocular pulse amplitude, the variation in eye pressure with each heartbeat.
    — Victoria Corless, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Definition of amplitude
Noun
  • For this list of the best spy movies ever made, Vulture opted for a big-tent approach in an attempt to create a selection that captured the full breadth of the spy film.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • That process is expected — or hoped — to start next week, and the final budget will reveal the full breadth of not just the deficit but the measures taken by lawmakers to close it.
    — Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of breadth
Noun
  • Microplastics are fragments of plastic measuring less than five millimeters long—some may be the size of a pencil eraser, while others are several times smaller than the width of a human hair.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The distance between your hands in this stance is the width of the most comfortable handlebar for your bike.
    — BestReviews, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of width
Noun
  • To the extent Medicare receives funding from the states, expect higher state and local taxes, property taxes, and consumption taxes like sales and use taxes, to cover the shortfall.
    — Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Also striking: several court cases in Florida highlight the extent to which criminal networks operate to funnel weapons to Haiti and its menacing gangs.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of extent
Noun
  • The issue before us is whether his mere claim of extraordinary harm justifies this court's immediate review, which would essentially remove the legal issues from the district court's ambit before its proceedings have concluded.
    — DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The data and tooling that informs 360 campaigns should be well-defined within the ambit of your governance and compliance frameworks to prevent the compromise of user privacy or the implementation of unfair or biased algorithms.
    — Runki Goswami, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Definition of ambit

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