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infraposition

infraposition noun: a situation or state of being beneath something else.

Noun

infraposition (uncountable)

  1. A situation or state of being beneath something else.
    • 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
  2. 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.
    Antonyms:
    supraposition

Antonyms of infraposition

Origin of infraposition

From infra- + position.

Questions about infraposition

What does infraposition mean?
Infraposition means a situation or state of being beneath something else.
What part of speech is infraposition?
Infraposition is a noun.

Words near infraposition in the dictionary

  1. infrapolitics
  2. infrapopliteal
  3. infrapopulation
  4. infrapopulations
  5. infraposed
  6. infraposition
  7. infrapostzygapophyseal
  8. infraprezygapophyseal
  9. infrapyloric
  10. infrapyramidal
  11. infrarealism

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