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Definition of "subjacent" []

  • Located beneath or below; underlying. (adjective)
  • Lying at a lower level but not directly beneath. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "subjacent" in a sentence
  • "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."