[1860–65; sub- + rational]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: big brother, blind spot, institutionalism, jumping jack, pop-upsub- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (subject; subtract; subvert; subsidy). On this model, sub- is freely attached to elements of any origin and used with the meaning “under,” “below,”“beneath” (subalpine; substratum), “slightly,” “imperfectly,” “nearly” (subcolumnar; subtropical), “secondary,” “subordinate” (subcommittee; subplot)
Examples of 'subrational' in a sentence
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In this paper, we introduce the concepts of rational type and subrational type contractive mappings.
Huang Huaping, Ansari Arslan Hojat, Dolićanin-Đekić Diana, Radenović Stojan 2017, 'Some fixed point results for rational type and subrational type contractive mappings',Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Mathematicahttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ausm.2017.9.issue-1/ausm-2017-0012/ausm-2017-0012.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)