subjacent
IPA: sˈʌbdʒˈeɪsʌnt
adjective
- Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
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Examples of "subjacent" in Sentences
- Is not this second infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first?
- There are 485 million "subjacent poor" and 322 million "medial poor" in the world.
- We started excavating the subjacent layers and discovered a large amount of stones and only a few sherds.
- The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water.
- Tahte -- "subjacent," from which that of El Garif may be seen to the left and that of Abou Raml to the right.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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