Editing Subject

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'''Subject''' ({{langx|la|subiectus|link=no}} "lying beneath") may refer to:

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==Philosophy==
*''[[Hypokeimenon]]'', or ''subiectum'', in metaphysics, the "internal", non-objective being of a thing
**[[Subject (philosophy)]], a being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity

==Linguistics==
* [[Subject (grammar)]], who or what a sentence or a clause is about
* [[Subject case]] or nominative case, one of the grammatical cases for a noun

==Music==
* [[Subject (music)]], or 'theme'
* The melodic material presented first in a [[fugue]]
* Either of the two main groups of themes (first subject, second subject), in [[sonata form]]
*[[Subject (album)|''Subject'' (album)]], a 2003 album by Dwele
*[[Subjects (album)]], a 2021 album by Scale the Summit

==Science and technology==
* The individual, whether an [[research participant|adult person]], a child or infant, or an animal, who is the subject of research.

===Computing===
* [[Subjects (programming)]], core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm
* [[Subject (access control)]]
* An element in the [[Resource Description Framework]]

===Library science and information science===
* [[Subject (documents)]] (subject classification; subject indexing; subject searching)
* [[Subject term]] or index term, a descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records

==Other uses==
* [[Commoner]], an individual subjected to rule by an elite, e.g. in feudalism
* Subject in a modern constitutional monarchy, e.g. [[British subject]]
* [[Course (education)]], a unit of academic instruction
* ''Subject'', a 2022 documentary about documentaries by [[Jennifer Tiexiera]]

==See also==
*[[Subject matter (disambiguation)]]
*[[Subjective (disambiguation)]]

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