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substring

English

Etymology

From sub- +? string

Noun

substring (plural substrings)

  1. (computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
    The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

Translations

Verb

substring (third-person singular simple present substrings, present participle substringing, simple past and past participle substringed)

  1. (computing, transitive) To extract a substring from.
    • 2015, Nadir K. Amra, Hernando Bedoya, Tony Cairns, Modernizing IBM i Applications from the Database up to the User Interface and Everything in Between
      If an existing character-based column is increased in size and your program does not need the extra characters, the view can be changed to force the smaller size by substringing the existing column.
  2. (computing, transitive) To take as a substring.

Anagrams

  • burstings

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subword

English

Etymology

sub- +? word

Noun

subword (plural subwords)

  1. (mathematics) substring

subword From the web:

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