suborbifold

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ orbifold

Noun

suborbifold (plural suborbifolds)

1. (mathematics) A submanifold of a space that is not smooth at every point, although it remains well-defined within the space.
   • 2016, Joseph E. Borzellino, Victor Brunsden, “On the Inheritance of Orbifold Substructures”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We also investigate the property of saturation in this context, and give an example of a suborbifold with the canonical orbifold substructure that is not saturated..