Home › Words › S › submarksubmarksubmark means A mark making up part of a larger mark.EtymologyFrom sub- + mark.nounA mark making up part of a larger mark.e.g.“Figure 26.23(b) shows a mark that is itself composed of submarks. The mark is a line segment with four smaller line segments protruding from the ends.” — 2007, Andrew Sears, Julie A. Jacko, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook:verbTo mark with a lesser or subsidiary mark.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).