Etymograph

English

submajorize

From sub- + majorize.

Formed from sub- + majorize

Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Today it means

verb To have the same partial sum as another sequence and at each step, to have the sum of the smaller sequence less than or equal to the sum of the larger sequence.

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Etymograph / submajorize