substyle
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- substile (line on which the gnomon is erected):
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
substyle (plural substyles)
- A secondary or subsidiary style.
- 1997, Alison J. Ewbank, Fouli T. Papageorgiou, Whose Master's Voice?: The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures:
- 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, […]
- 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.
- 1699, Joseph Moxon, A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography […] , page 168:
- which is the distance of the Substyle from the Perpendicular […]
References[edit]
- “substyle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.