subcollection

noun

subcollection

noun

Etymology From sub- + collection.

1

A subset of a collection.

  • Humor books are easy to catalog as a part of a comics collection—treat them as a subcollection of comics (aka fiction) and group them first by creator, then by series title, paying attention to volume numbers and/or dates of publication.2018, Matthew Z. Wood, Comic Book Collections and Programming: A Practical Guide for Librarians:

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