subtype
subtype Lexical Profile
subtype Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A secondary or subordinate type included within a broader category, class, or group (especially a genetically or immunologically distinct strain of a microorganism or medical condition).
"Researchers identified a rare subtype of the influenza virus during the winter outbreak."
A data type whose values and operations are a subset of, and compatible with, those of a more general parent data type (in computer science).
"In object-oriented programming, an integer can often be treated as a subtype of a floating-point number."
• verb
To classify, categorize, or divide into specific subtypes (especially in pathology, genetics, or epidemiology).
"The laboratory technicians subtyped the bacterial samples to trace the exact source of the contamination."