subpower

noun3

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
2. •
   A natural number x, with the property that x = bⁱy for some y that is not multiple of b.
3. •
   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