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subface

subface noun: part of a face.

Noun

subface (plural subfaces)

  1. Part of a face
    • At each iteration, our methods first identify a face of an orthant and then either perform an exact line search along the direction of the negative projected minimum-norm subgradient of the objective function or execute a CG subroutine that conducts a sequence of CG iterations until a CG iterate...2015, Zhaosong Lu, Xiaojun Chen, “Generalized Conjugate Gradient Methods for ℓ₁ Regularized Convex Quadratic Programming with Finite Convergence”, in arXiv

Forms of subface

pluralsubfaces

Origin of subface

From sub- + face.

Questions about subface

What does subface mean?
Subface means part of a face.
What part of speech is subface?
Subface is a noun.
What is the plural of subface?
The plural of subface is subfaces.

Words near subface in the dictionary

  1. subextensive
  2. subextremal
  3. subf.
  4. subfab
  5. subfabs
  6. subface
  7. subfaces
  8. subfacet
  9. subfacets
  10. subfacial
  11. subfaction

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