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substubs

substubs is the plural of substub.

Meaning of substub

Noun

substub (plural substubs)

  1. A subheading below a stub (stub head) in a table; a stub subordinate to another stub.
    • The first column on the left is the stub column. Its heading is referred to as the stub head. A stub is a title for a row of (horizontal) data. Should a stub column contain substubs, then the substubs are indented two or three spaces to show that they are subordinate to the stub item.1992, Joel P. Bowman, Bernadine P. Branchaw, “Special techniques: headings, lists, and tables”, in How to Write Proposals that Produce, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 97

Questions about substubs

What is substubs the plural of?
Substubs is the plural of substub.

Words near substubs in the dictionary

  1. substructuring
  2. substructurings
  3. substs.
  4. substt.
  5. substub
  6. substubs
  7. substudies
  8. substudy
  9. substylar
  10. substyle
  11. substyles

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