Infraposition
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Infraposition is a noun meaning A situation or state of being beneath something else.
Meaning
A situation or state of being beneath something else.
More Meanings
- (dentistry) A type of malposition of a tooth such that its occlusal surface falls short of the occlusal plane (that is, apical to it); an instance of such malposition.
Example Sentences
1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack This floe is now more than two hundred and fifty yards long by four hundred wide; a size too large for infraposition of tables
Antonyms for infraposition
Common opposites include supraposition, superposition, superimposition.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include underplacement, subsurface, supraposition, underlayer, subterposition, subsubject.
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