Subcollection
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From sub- + collection.
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