subvariant

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ variant

Noun

subvariant (plural subvariants)

  1. A subsidiary variant; a subtype of something.
    • 2015 July 16, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Photographs By Franck Bohbot, “Power in Numbers”, in New York Times‎:
      DreamHack began in 1994, in the basement of a nearby elementary school, as a small, local subvariant of what was then called a ‘‘copyparty’’ — pre-broadband occasions to share software or demonstrate flashy off-label uses of early home computers.
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