Definition of subperiod
plural subperiods
or sub-periods
: a period that is a subdivision of a longer period
- … the Ice Age, more precisely, 10,000 years ago or the tail end of the Pleistocene subperiod.
- —Robert Carr
- Let's look at the subperiods of the 1980s. The first quarter of the decade had to be devoted to fighting against two-digit inflation.
- —The Christian Science Monitor
