substubs

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A form of substub — A subheading below a stub (stub head) in a table; a stub subordinate to another stub.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralmediaplural of substub

    The first column on the left is the stub column. Its heading is referred to as the stub head. A stub is a title for a row of (horizontal) data. Should a stub column contain substubs, then the substubs are indented two or three spaces to show that they are subordinate to the stub item.

    1992, Joel P. Bowman, Bernadine P. Branchaw, “Special techniques: headings, lists, and tables”, in How to Write Proposals that Produce, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 97
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APA

substubs. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/substubs

MLA

“substubs.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/substubs. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “substubs,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/substubs.

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