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sublibraries

sublibraries is the plural of sublibrary.

Meaning of sublibrary

Noun

sublibrary (plural sublibraries)

  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. A subset of a combinatorial library (collection of compounds generated using combinatorial chemistry)

Questions about sublibraries

What is sublibraries the plural of?
Sublibraries is the plural of sublibrary.

Words near sublibraries in the dictionary

  1. sublexically
  2. sublexicon
  3. sublexicons
  4. sublibrarian
  5. sublibrarians
  6. sublibraries
  7. sublibrary
  8. sublicence
  9. sublicences
  10. sublicensable
  11. sublicense

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