superjacent
adjUK /s(j)uːpəˈdʒeɪsənt/
Etymology From (the stem of) Latin superjacēns, present participle of superjacēre, from super- + jacēre (“to lie”).
1
Positioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying.
- Pemulis, Troeltsch, and Schacht's triple-room is subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House and so superjacent to the Dining Hall […].1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 171:
- Antonyms
- subjacent