1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) i. App. 60 A young man, Wyaganage, has recently taken the lead in all the councils and affairs of state of this sub-band.

1888 Athenæum 24 Nov. 701/3 They are divided into sub-bands under subordinate chiefs.

1910 J. McLaughlin My Friend Indian ii. 26 The Loafers, a sub-band of the Brules, were obviously named from their laggard and unthrifty characteristics.

1980 R. A. Hecht Continents in Collision xi. 267 The Apaches split up into at least six major subdivisions or tribes, which included numerous bands and sub-bands.

2005 P. Kulchyski Like Sound of Drum iv. 168 Colville Lake decolonized itself, established itself as a separate band, rather than a sub-band of Fort Good Hope.

1891 Proc. Royal Soc. 49 40 The sub-band seen in the star No. 4013 is very much fainter in this star.

1905 Rep. Bur. Mines 14 315 Three decided bands and many smaller sub-bands appear interstratified with the schists.

1924 U.S. Patent 1,497,714 1/1 Secrecy is obtained by dividing the message frequency band into a plurality of sub-bands.

1976 R. J. Pulham in C. C. Addison Inorg. Chem. Main-Group Elements III. ii. 73 The Kβ emission spectra consist of a prominent band Kβ₁ and its sub-bands Kβ_x, and Kβ₅.

2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. vii. 265 When the thickness of a crystalline film is comparable with the de Broglie wavelength, the conduction and valence bands will break into subbands.

2010 RadioUser Apr. 44/2 Voice communication is on the remaining 118–137MHz sub-band.