sublocus

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ locus.

Noun

sublocus (plural subloci)

1. (mathematics) A subsidiary locus.
   • 2015, Edoardo Ballico, Francesco Bastianelli, Luca Benzo, “On large theta-characteristics with prescribed vanishing”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We prove that they describe a sublocus ${\mathcal {G}}_{g}^{r}({\underline {k}})$ of ${\mathcal {M}}_{g,n}$ having codimension at most $g-1+{\frac {r(r-1)}{2}}$.

2. (biology) A locus within a locus, such as araB, araA, araD within locus ara.

   Holonyms: locus, < subband, < band, < region