Substring
WordNet

noun


(1)   A string that is part of a longer string
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Noun


  1. A string of characters that is contained in another string, like "ello" in "Hello". Precisely, a string A is a substring of B, if B = C . A . D for some strings C and D, where "." is a concatenation operator, and C and D are possibly empty.
 
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