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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
subsurface en · ADJ
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Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Middle French surfacebor.
English surface
English subsurface
From sub- + surface.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Below the surface.
variations in subsurface conditions
Translations (4)
pl podpowierzchniowy (below the surface) · uk підповерхне́вий (below the surface) · ru подпове́рхностный (below the surface) · hu felszín alatti (below the surface)
subsurface en · NOUN
Etymology
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Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Middle French surfacebor.
English surface
English subsurface
From sub- + surface.
Meanings
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Something that is below the layer that is on the surface.
Before we could lay the flooring we had to lay a subsurface under it to keep it flat and support it.
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(countable) A surface which is a submanifold of another surface.
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Translations (2)
tl kubdayag (a surface which is a submanifold of another surface) · fr subsurface (something that is below the layer that is on the surface)