subpowers

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
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.