subspecialty
noun
sub·spe·cial·ty
ˌsəb-ˈspe-shəl-tē
variants
or less commonly sub-specialty
plural subspecialties also sub-specialties
: a specialty that is part of a broader specialty
Child psychiatry is a subspecialty of general psychiatry, just as hematology is of internal medicine.—Bruno Bettelheim and Alvin A. Rosenfeld
An entire subspecialty known as machine learning is devoted to building algorithms that allow computers to develop new behaviors based on experience.—Adam Piore
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