subcurve

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ curve

Noun

subcurve (plural subcurves)

1. A curve forming part of another curve.
   • 2016, Maximilian Hanusch, “Symmetries of Analytic Curves”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We show that an analytic curve is either exponential or splits into countably many analytic immersive curves; each of them decomposing naturally into symmetry free subcurves mutually and uniquely related by the group action.