Subrange

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A subdivision of a mountain range.

    "His own reluctant namesake, Mount Beckey, rises some 8,500 feet in a largely uncharted subrange near the Cathedral Spires of southeastern Alaska."

  2. 2
    A subset of a given range or numeric set.

    "We are concerned with the subrange of integers between a and b."

Example

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"His own reluctant namesake, Mount Beckey, rises some 8,500 feet in a largely uncharted subrange near the Cathedral Spires of southeastern Alaska."

Etymology

From sub- + range.

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