subconstituent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A part or component of a syntactic, morphological, or phonetic constituent.
noun
One component of an algebra or graph that is made up of the union of several subalgebras or subgraphs.
noun
A component of an elementary particle.
Example Sentences
- "In any metrical tree or constituent, the HTE of the subconstituent dominated by l is: a. One register step lower than the HTE of the subconstituent dominated by h when the l subconstituent is on the right; b. at the same register as the HTE of the subconstituent dominated by h when the l subconstituent is on the left."
- "The dominance relation directly characterizes the property of subconstituency: X dominates Y if Y is a subconstituent of X."
- "Given two adjacent constituents A and B, two cases must be considered: * A can attach as a left subconstituent of B; * B can attach as a right subconstituent of A, or as a right subconstituent of an active subconstituent of A."
- "The second subconstituent of a graph with respect to some vertex x is the induced graph on the vertices distinct from x, and that are not adjacent to x."
- "During 1992 and 1993 Paul Terwilliger introduced a new tool called the subconstituent algebra for studying the underlying structure of association schemes through a series of three papers [21], [22], and [23]. Terwilliger introduced a method for studying commutative association schemes by defining a new algebra that is noncommutative, finite dimensional, semisimple C-algebra. The subconstituent algebra is now popularly referred to as the "Terwilliger" algebra."
- "The term prequark has appeared in the literature as a name for subconstituents in composite models [4]."
Etymology
From sub- + constituent.