subarea

noun

sub·ar·ea ˌsəb-ˈer-ē-ə

-ˈā-rē-ə

variants or sub-area

plural subareas or sub-areas

: an area within a larger area

Most of the streets there really do have no name; instead, cities and towns are subdivided into areas, subareas and blocks.—

Robin Birtstone

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Moreover, the horizontal spaces between neurons in this subarea widened by nearly 50 percent, creating more room for axons and dendrites. —

Heather Pringle, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016 The council is considering alternatives to the emergency action, including implementing an annual closure of the savings area and subareas to all commercial groundfish fishing gears through a normal rulemaking process — that would not include non-pelagic trawling. —

Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023 With social-distancing measures in place for the foreseeable future, queue management—once an esoteric subarea of logistics—is being recast as a health-and-wellness hero. —

Elissaveta M. Brandon, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2020