subcollection
English
Etymology
From sub- + collection.
Noun
subcollection (plural subcollections)
- A subset of a collection.
- 2018, Matthew Z. Wood, Comic Book Collections and Programming: A Practical Guide for Librarians:
- Humor books are easy to catalog as a part of a comics collection—treat them as a subcollection of comics (aka fiction) and group them first by creator, then by series title, paying attention to volume numbers and/or dates of publication.