What does subjacent mean?
Subjacent means Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying..
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/sʌbˈdʒeɪsənt/ · adjective
Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying..
In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies.
[in relation to the second floor flat in a tenement building] the subjacent first floor and ground floor flats were ... owned by the first defenders.
Use subjacent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Subjacent means Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying..
Common synonyms include underlying.
Possible antonyms include superjacent.
In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
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