Subsubchapter
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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