Word info

subcollection

Noun

Meaning

subcollection (plural subcollections)

A subset of a collection.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Closed sets also give a useful characterization of compactness: a topological space X is compact if and only if every collection of nonempty closed subsets of X with empty intersection admits a finite subcollection with empty intersection. Source: Internet

The first one describes that one item is an instance of some collection, the second one that one collection is a subcollection of another one. Source: Internet

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