sublibrary

noun — 2 senses

sublibrary

noun

Etymology From sub- + library.

1

A library forming part of a larger library.

  • A library of skeleton descriptions is composed of skeleton descriptions with a sublibrary of words and phrases that can be used to fill the gaps in the skeleton descriptions.1976, R. J. Alvey, Computers in Quantity Surveying, page 73:
2

Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A subset of a combinatorial library (collection of compounds generated using combinatorial chemistry)

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