Usually means: Sequence of characters within string.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word substring:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. substring: Vocabulary.com
  2. Substring, substring: Wordnik
  3. substring: Wiktionary
  4. substring: Dictionary.com
  5. Substring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. substring: FreeDictionary.org
  7. substring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. substring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. substring: Netlingo
  2. substring: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. substring: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Substring: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. substring: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. substring: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (substring)

noun:  (computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To extract a substring from.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To take as a substring.

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