bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - UNDERSOIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.

Related words: (words related to UNDERSOIL)

  • SURFACE LOADING
    The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
  • SURFACE TENSION
    That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
  • UNDERSTRATUM
    The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.
  • SURFACE
    A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. (more info) 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face;
  • SUBSOIL
    The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil. Subsoil plow, a plow having a share and standard but no moldboard. It follows in the furrow made by an ordinary plow, and loosens the soil to an additional depth without
  • SURFACER
    A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
  • BENEATH
    1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
  • DOUBLE-SURFACED
    Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.
  • ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
    A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
  • FOLLOWING SURFACE
    See ABOVE
  • ADVANCING SURFACE
    The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.
  • SINGLE-SURFACED
    Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.

 

Back to top