2. 1. An ordered set of standard and proven routines and subroutines by which problems may be solved; usually stored in relative or symbolic coding. A library maybe subdivided into various volumes, such as floating-decimal, double-precision, or complex, according to the type of arithmetic employed by the subroutines.
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin libraria 'bookshop', feminine (used as a noun) of librarius 'relating to books', from liber, libr- 'book'
