subjacent
IPA: sˈʌbdʒˈeɪsʌnt
adjective
- Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
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Examples of "subjacent" in Sentences
- The auger may be driven by a subjacent drive motor.
- Is not this second infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first?
- The definition of the subjacent relation closely resembles that of c_command.
- Our assumption is that certain words express a subjacent need for protection.
- 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.
- A plug valve for controlling discharge of a fluid tank has an upper surface continuously subjected to the weight and pressure of the tank's contents. Pressure applied to this upper surface is transmitted through the valve to assist sealing with a member subjacent to the valve's plug.
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