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substring

substring noun: a (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.

Noun

substring (plural substrings)

  1. A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
    • The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

Verb

substring (third-person singular simple present substrings, present participle substringing, simple past and past participle substringed)

  1. (transitive) To extract a substring from.
    • If an existing character-based column is increased in size and your program does not need the extra characters, the view can be changed to force the smaller size by substringing the existing column.2015, Nadir K. Amra, Hernando Bedoya, Tony Cairns, Modernizing IBM i Applications from the Database up to the User Interface and Everything in Between
  2. (transitive) To take as a substring.
    • In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.2010, Thomas Kyte, Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g

substring meaning in Tamil

substring in Tamil

உட்சரம்

Forms of substring

Noun
pluralsubstrings
Verb
third-person singular presentsubstrings
present participlesubstringing
past participlesubstringed
pastsubstringed

Origin of substring

From sub- + string.

Questions about substring

What does substring mean?
Substring means a (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
What is substring in Tamil?
Substring in Tamil is உட்சரம். See Substring meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is substring?
Substring can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of substring?
The plural of substring is substrings.

Words near substring in the dictionary

  1. substratum
  2. substream
  3. substreams
  4. substriate
  5. substriated
  6. substring
  7. substringed
  8. substringing
  9. substrings
  10. substruct
  11. substructed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: substring (page history and authors); substring (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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