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supination

supination noun: the act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.

Noun

supination (countable and uncountable, plural supinations)

  1. The act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.
  2. The act of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned up or forward, or the resulting state of the forearm
  3. The act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot.
  4. The position of the sword hand when the palm is facing up.

supination meaning in Tamil

supination in Tamil

கைமலர்விப்பு, கைப்புறமேற்றிரும்பல், மல்லாத்தல், முகப்புறமேற்றிரும்பல், மேல்லாத்துதல், வெளிப்புரட்டல்

Forms of supination

pluralsupinations

Origin of supination

From supine + -ation.

Words formed from supination

Questions about supination

What does supination mean?
Supination means the act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.
What is supination in Tamil?
Supination in Tamil is கைமலர்விப்பு, கைப்புறமேற்றிரும்பல், மல்லாத்தல். See Supination meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is supination?
Supination is a noun.
What is the plural of supination?
The plural of supination is supinations.

Words near supination in the dictionary

  1. supinanin
  2. supinate
  3. supinated
  4. supinates
  5. supinating
  6. supination
  7. supinations
  8. supinator
  9. supinators
  10. supinatory
  11. supine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supination (page history and authors); supination (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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