subrange

plural subranges · alternative sub-range

1. geographyA subdivision of a mountain range.

   His own reluctant namesake, Mount Beckey, rises some 8,500 feet in a largely uncharted subrange near the Cathedral Spires of southeastern Alaska.

   2008 December 16, Michael Brick, “At 85, More Peaks to Conquer and Adventures to Seek”, in New York Times

2. computingA subset of a given range or numeric set.

   The program defines two subrange types.

   1 more example

   We are concerned with the subrange of integers between a and b.