subrange

subrange

See also: sub-range

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Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English range
English subrange

    From sub- + range.

    Noun

    subrange (plural subranges)

    1. (geography) A subdivision of a mountain range.
      • 2008 December 16, Michael Brick, “At 85, More Peaks to Conquer and Adventures to Seek”, in New York Times‎[1]:
        His own reluctant namesake, Mount Beckey, rises some 8,500 feet in a largely uncharted subrange near the Cathedral Spires of southeastern Alaska.
    2. (mathematics, programming) A subset of a given range or numeric set.
      We are concerned with the subrange of integers between a and b.
      The program defines two subrange types.

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