SUBSURFACE

subsurface

Noun

  1. Something that is below the layer that is on the surface.
    Before we could lay the flooring we had to lay a subsurface under it to keep it flat and supoort it.
  2. A surface which is a submanifold of another surface.

Adjective

  1. below the surface
    variations in subsurface conditions


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