subpower

Noun

subpower (plural subpowers)

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.2000, Ronald H. Chilcote, Imperialism: Theoretical Directions, page 278
   • Three of the subpowers of evil in spirit, the three unclean spirits, appear in verse 16:13 and directly relate via their corresponding clock lines to the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. The names of the remaining subpowers of evil are given in Revelation as follows: Wormwood, the second...2013, Damiaan Kletter, The Revelation Code: What to Expect Through 2020, →ISBN, page 32
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.2015, Jacek Kucab, Michael Zarichnyi, “Remarks on asymptotic power dimension”, in arXiv
3. A natural number x, with the property that x = bⁱy for some y that is not multiple of b.