subfunction

A secondary or subsidiary function.

Noun

  1. A secondary or subsidiary function.
    • “Lost” is certainly to be granted its points for its subfunction as a soap opera this season. - 2009 May 13, Ginia Bellafante, “Where It’s 1977 and 2007 All at the Same Time”, in New York Times:

Origin

From sub- + function.

Forms

subfunctions