Subpower

Quick meaning: Subpower is a noun meaning A minor power; Something that has control over a limited domain that falls within the larger domain of a greater power.

Meaning

A minor power; Something that has control over a limited domain that falls within the larger domain of a greater power.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics) A natural number x, with the property that x = bⁱy for some y that is not multiple of b.
2. (mathematics) 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 .

Example Sentences

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.

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.

William Safire, a conservative columnist for the New York Times, wrote that Clinton would be “remembered in history as a man who feared, flinched and failed,” whose diffidence in the face of “Nazi-style ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia had “turned a superpower into a subpower."

Word Forms

• subpowers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subruler, underling, suboverseer, subdelegate, submajority, subagency.

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