Subsubchapter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A subsection of a subchapter; a subsection of a subsection of a chapter. rare

    "Imagine a book about occupations with a table of contents divided into chapters organized by interest fields, subchapters organized by level of income offered, subsubchapters organized by physical strength required, and so on through ten tiers of classification. This work of classification would be impressive, but would still be helpful only to the user who wants to search using the characteristics in the (arbitrarily) hierarchic order given."

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"Imagine a book about occupations with a table of contents divided into chapters organized by interest fields, subchapters organized by level of income offered, subsubchapters organized by physical strength required, and so on through ten tiers of classification. This work of classification would be impressive, but would still be helpful only to the user who wants to search using the characteristics in the (arbitrarily) hierarchic order given."

Etymology

From sub- + subchapter.

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