Subpower
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A minor power; Something that has control over a limited domain that falls within the larger domain of a greater power.
"Brazilian subimperialism implies policy of being a subpower; but the subpower that Brazil practices does not give us the key to the subimperialist stage which it has entered."
- 2 A type of function such that for every exponent a, there is a small integer ε such that for any positive value x less than ε, its image lies between xᵃ and x⁻ᵃ .
"Using a result of Dranishnikov and Smith we prove that, under some conditions, the asymptotic power dimension of a proper metric space coincides with the dimension of its subpower corona."
- 3 A natural number x, with the property that x = bⁱy for some y that is not multiple of b.
Example
More examples"Brazilian subimperialism implies policy of being a subpower; but the subpower that Brazil practices does not give us the key to the subimperialist stage which it has entered."
Etymology
From sub- + power.
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