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Princeton's WordNet

  1. subsurfaceadjective

    beneath the surface

    "subsurface materials of the moon"

Wiktionary

  1. subsurfacenoun

    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. subsurfacenoun

    A surface which is a submanifold of another surface.

  3. subsurfaceadjective

    below the surface

    variations in subsurface conditions

Wikipedia

  1. subsurface

    In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.

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  1. subsurface

    Subsurface refers to anything located or occurring beneath Earth's surface, including soils, sediments, rocks, groundwater, natural gas reserves, and other underground features or elements. Subsurface study and exploration are crucial in various fields such as geology, archaeology, mining, and petroleum engineering.

Wikidata

  1. Subsurface

    Subsurface is the seventh studio album by British progressive metal band Threshold. The album was released in August 2004, and received an Album of the Month award in several European music magazines. Songs on the album resume themes from earlier albums, including environmentalism and war, but also incorporating political themes.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Subsurface

    sub′sur-fās, adj. below the surface.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of subsurface in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of subsurface in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of subsurface in a Sentence

  1. Franceso Sauro:

    It is for sure a big challenge, but it is now clear for all space agencies that while we have already a good knowledge of the surface of the Moon, one of the main steps forward for space exploration would be to demonstrate the capability of exploring the subsurface of a planetary body.

  2. Li Chunlai:

    The subsurface at the CE-4 landing site is much more transparent to radio waves, and this qualitative observation suggests a totally different geological context for the two landing sites.

  3. Cesar Yabor:

    The technological capability to identify and verify unmarked burial sites through subsurface scanning or other means was far less robust 70 years ago, while the Corps made every effort at the time to locate unmarked burials.

  4. Walter Kiefer:

    This was very localized in the regions where the astronauts worked extensively, in these areas, the astronaut bootprints darkened the lunar regolith [ or soil ] slightly, causing the regolith to absorb more sunlight and heat up. This was a region 50 to 100 meters across in the experiment deployment zone and of similar or smaller sizes at the sample collection stops. Outside of these zones, the astronauts had little or no effect on the subsurface temperatures.

  5. Corey Wallace:

    Subsurface detection and reaction is a Japanese strength in both technological and operational terms, and a Chinese weakness, even if (China) quantitatively has a larger subsurface fleet.

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