Infraposition

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A situation or position beneath. uncountable

    "1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack This floe is now more than two hundred and fifty yards long by four hundred wide; a size too large for infraposition of tables"

  2. 2
    A type of malposition of a tooth such that its occlusal surface falls short of the occlusal plane (that is, apical to it); an instance of such malposition. uncountable

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"1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack This floe is now more than two hundred and fifty yards long by four hundred wide; a size too large for infraposition of tables"

Etymology

From infra- + position.

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