Subject

Subject (Latin: subiectus "lying beneath") may refer to:

Education

Library and information science

  • Subject (documents) (subject classification; subject indexing; subject searching)
  • Subject term or index term, descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records

Philosophy

Linguistics

Computing

Music

  • The melodic material presented first in a fugue
  • Either of the two main groups of themes (first subject, second subject) in sonata form

People

A subject is an individual subjected to the rule by an elite, see feudalism

  • subjects in medieval feudalism, see commoners
  • subjects in modern constitutional monarchies, such as the United Kingdom, see British subject

Statistics and psychology

  • A subject is someone or something that undergoes testing in a scientific experiment.