subjacent
English
Etymology
From Latin subiaceō (“lie beneath”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sʌbˈdʒeɪsənt/
Adjective
subjacent (comparative more subjacent, superlative most subjacent)
- Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
- 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography (page 126)
- In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 194-5:
- Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies.
- 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography (page 126)
Derived terms
Translations
underlying
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See also
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) subjacent