sublibrary

English

Alternative forms

• sub-library

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)