substyle

noun — 2 senses

substyle

noun

Etymology From sub- + style.

1

A secondary or subsidiary style.

  • In this way, breakdancing, hardbeat, acidhouse, acidbeat, hip-hop, punk, rockabilly and streetmusic make up a plurality of substyles launched by the record companies which take over the national markets, […]1997, Alison J. Ewbank, Fouli T. Papageorgiou, Whose Master's Voice?: The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures:
2

A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a sundial is erected, being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.

  • which is the distance of the Substyle from the Perpendicular[…]1699, Joseph Moxon, A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography […] , page 168:
Derived terms
substylar

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