subjacent
adjUK /sʌbˈdʒeɪsənt/
Etymology From Latin subiaceō (“lie beneath”).
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Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
- 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 […]1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126:
- 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.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 194–5:
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- [in relation to the second floor flat in a tenement building] the subjacent first floor and ground floor flats were ... owned by the first defenders.2002, Scottish Court of Session, Anderson v. Express Investment Company Ltd.:
- Derived terms
- subjacency, subjacently
- Related terms
- superjacent