sublibrary

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English

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Etymology

From sub- +‎ library.

Noun

sublibrary (plural sublibraries)

  1. A library forming part of a larger library.
    • 1976, R. J. Alvey, Computers in Quantity Surveying, page 73:
      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.
  2. (chemistry) A subset of a combinatorial library (collection of compounds generated using combinatorial chemistry)