Definition of "underlies" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of underlie. (verb)

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• "I believe this principle underlies the higher processes and upon it is built up the whole of the psycho-physiological mechanisms."
• "The renowned former president of the American Physical Society and professor of physics at Princeton University, recipient of the Einstein Award and member of the National Academy of Sciences, John Archibald Wheeler, likened what underlies all existence to an idea, the “bit” the binary digit of information that gives rise to the “it,” the substance of matter."
• "Space-time just … rolled in on itself, compressed to a singularity, and ceased to exist—returning to the quantum foam that underlies any concept of reality."