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subcollection

subcollection noun: a subset of a collection.

Noun

subcollection (plural subcollections)

  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

Forms of subcollection

pluralsubcollections

Origin of subcollection

From sub- + collection.

Questions about subcollection

What does subcollection mean?
Subcollection means a subset of a collection.
What part of speech is subcollection?
Subcollection is a noun.
What is the plural of subcollection?
The plural of subcollection is subcollections.

Words near subcollection in the dictionary

  1. subcoerulear
  2. subcoeruleus
  3. subcognitive
  4. subcohort
  5. subcohorts
  6. subcollection
  7. subcollections
  8. subcollector
  9. subcollectors
  10. subcollege
  11. subcolleges

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