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单词 superincumbent
释义 ˌsuperinˈcumbent, a.
[ad. L. superincumbent-em, pr. pple. of superincumbĕre: see super- 2 and incumbent.]
Lying or resting upon, or situated on the top of, something else; overlying. (Chiefly in scientific use.)
1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 105 The variation of the gravity of the Superincumbent Ayr.1674Petty Disc. Dupl. Proportion 117 Water-Divers..the lower they go, do find their stock of Air more and more to shrink; and that according to the Roots of the Quantities of the super-incumbent Water or Weight.1785Cowper Let. to J. Newton 19 Mar., The round table, which we formerly had in use, was unequal to the pressure of my superincumbent breast and elbows.1830Lyell Princ. Geol. xv. I. 281 The soft argillaceous sub⁓stratum..hastens the dilapidation of the superincumbent mass of limestone.1874Hartwig Aerial W. i. 2 Air is a very elastic body, and, in consequence of the earth's attraction, each superincumbent stratum presses upon all those below it.
predicative.1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 485 The soil is generally light, but superincumbent on a subsoil, which is supplied with water.
b. Situated or suspended above; overhanging.
1835T. Mitchell Acharn. of Aristoph. 230 note, Above this mother earth..was seen stretched the superincumbent heaven.a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. Jerry Jarvis's Wig, Either side of the superincumbent banks was clothed with a thick mantle of tangled copsewood.
c. Of pressure: Exerted from above.
1854Ronalds & Richardson Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 107 If..coke is prepared under considerable superincumbent pressure the blisters which form in the softened coal are pressed together.1866Roscoe Elem. Chem. iv. 40 Water boils when the tension of its vapour is equal to the superincumbent atmospheric pressure.
d. fig.
1821Shelley Adonais xxxii, A Power Girt round with weakness;—it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour.1848Clough Amours de Voy. i. 35 A tyrannous sense of superincumbent oppression.1875E. White Life in Christ i. viii. (1878) 81 The superincumbent accumulations of pagan and mediæval thought.
Hence ˌsuperinˈcumbently adv.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 249 Fracture narrowly and divergingly striated, or superincumbently striated.
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