Sublibrary

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    A subset of a combinatorial library (collection of compounds generated using combinatorial chemistry)

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"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."

Etymology

From sub- + library.

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