Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Located beneath or below; underlying.
- adjective Lying at a lower level but not directly beneath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying under or below: in geology, applied to rocks, beds, or strata, considered with reference to their position beneath other overlying formations.
- Being in a lower situation, though not necessarily directly beneath.
- In algebra, following below the line of the main characters: as, a subjacent letter, as the n in mn.
- noun In logic, the converting proposition or consequent of a conversion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lying under or below.
- adjective Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lying beneath or at alower level ;underlying .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lying nearby but lower
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Tahte -- "subjacent," from which that of El Garif may be seen to the left and that of Abou Raml to the right.
The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria Archduke of Austria Ludwig Salvator 1881
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These great disturbances of the ice-mass must have a cause, and the only conceivable one was that the subjacent land had brought about this disruption of the surface.
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It could not rise to 1,100 feet -- which we measured as the rise from Framheim to a point about thirty-one miles to the south -- without subjacent land.
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The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, having no longer an underpinning, gave way.
Les Miserables 2008
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The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water.
Les Miserables 2008
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Is not this second infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first?
Les Miserables 2008
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It has divided the poor into three distinct categories – "subjacent poor" living on 75 cents to $ one a day, "medial poor" living on 50 cents to 75 cents a day and "ultra poor" living on less than 50 cents a day.
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There are 485 million "subjacent poor" and 322 million "medial poor" in the world.
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We started excavating the subjacent layers and discovered a large amount of stones and only a few sherds.
Field Notes 2006 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2006
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We started excavating the subjacent layers and discovered a large amount of stones and only a few sherds.
Picture 88 « Field Notes 2006 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2006
chained_bear commented on the word subjacent
See calcareous for a usage note.
February 23, 2008