Sublineation

Quick meaning: Sublineation is a noun meaning A line drawn underneath text; an underline.

Meaning

A line drawn underneath text; an underline.

More Meanings

1. The act of underlining.
2. (anthropology) A system of forming kinship groups that subdivide a major lineage into subgroups of more closely related individuals.
3. (geology) lineation due to the accumulation of matter in cavities beneath the surface.
4. (philosophy) A branch of philosophy concerned with understanding of language.

Example Sentences

Philosophy interested him, and I found my own education improving with Socrates' as he led me deeper and deeper into mazes of idealism, epistemology and sublineation.

The larger the lineage, as a general rule, the more segmented it becomes. Sublineation, on the other hand, depends exclusively on the size and "antiquity" of the lineage.

There have been a great many theories as to why the zinc is deposited on and alloyed with the metal treated, but I think that the theory of sublineation is possibly the one most correct.

These uplands are still growing, and comparatively young, but their nature points to past sublineation of thick accumulations of sediment, from abundant sources, and therefore active volcanicity

Word Forms

• sublineations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underline, underlining, underscoring, underscore, understroke, interlineation.

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