subpower

Definitions

1. A minor power; Something that has control over a limited domain that falls within the larger domain of a greater power.
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 .
3. A natural number x, with the property that x = bⁱy for some y that is not multiple of b.

Examples

“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.”

“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 subpower of the false prophet; Apollyon and Abaddon, the two subpowers of the great whore; the minds of serpent and Magog, the two subpowers of the serpant; and finally Gog (also known as the names of blasphemy) and the scorpions of the earth, the two subpowers of the accuser of our brethren.”

“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."”

“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.”

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