subsymmetry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. an infinitesimal transformation that leaves only a part (a sub-system) of a larger system invariant, rather than the entire system

Word forms

subsymmetry subsymmetries

Etymology

From sub- + symmetry.

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