substyle

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English

Alternative forms

  • substile (line on which the gnomon is erected):

Etymology

From sub- +‎ style.

Noun

substyle (plural substyles)

  1. 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,
  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.
    • 1699, Joseph Moxon, A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography , page 168:
      which is the distance of the Substyle from the Perpendicular

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