superjacent en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /s(j)uːpəˈdʒeɪsənt/ (UK)
Etymology
From (the stem of) Latin superjacēns, present participle of superjacēre, from super- + jacēre (“to lie”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Positioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying.
Pemulis, Troeltsch, and Schacht's triple-room is subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House and so superjacent to the Dining Hall […].
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 171: