subtheory

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ theory

Noun

subtheory (plural subtheories)

1. A theory forming part of a larger theory.
   • 2016, Ross Duncan, Kevin Dunne, “Interacting Frobenius Algebras are Hopf”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We recover the system of Bonchi et al as a subtheory in the prime power dimensional case, but the more general theory does not arise from a distributive law.

Related terms

• subtheoretical