subvariant

English

Etymology

From 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 The New York Times Magazine‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 July 2025:
      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.
    • 2022 July 20, “Opinion: Covid-19 continues to surprise us”, in CNN‎[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 29 August 2025:
      As with the previous Omicron subvariants, it seems likely that the US will follow those regions once again, with or without the new souped-up vaccines.
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