Definition of Subcollection

1. Noun. (mathematics) A subset of a collection ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subcollection

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subcollection

subclonal
subclone
subcloned
subclones
subcloning
subclump
subclumps
subcluster
subclustered
subclustering
subclusters
subcode
subcodes
subcoeruleus
subcohort
subcollection (current term)
subcollections
subcollege
subcollegiate
subcolonies
subcolony
subcolumn
subcolumnar
subcolumns
subcommand
subcommander
subcommanders
subcommands
subcommission
subcommissioned

Literary usage of Subcollection

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
"... master-subcollection file organization in such a way that a huge collection can be broken up into convenient subcollection sizes of say 0.5-1.0 GB each, ..."

2. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1995)
"For each subcollection, all query terms occurring in that database and their term ... In another case, we normalized the cosines within each subcollection ..."

3. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1995)
"For each subcollection, all query terms occurring in that database and their term ... In another case, we normalized the cosines within each subcollection ..."

4. Text Retrieval Conference, 4th edited by D. K. Harman (1998)
"Table 4 summarizes the system's performance at various levels of index split with a subset of AP subcollection. For TREC-4 we used 7 sub-indexes for the ad- ..."

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