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Superincumbent

//suːpəɹɪnˈkʌmbənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lying or resting on something else; overlying.

    "As the vapour cooled the water would be precipitated, and an ocean would surround the spherical nucleus with a superincumbent atmosphere."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lying or resting on and exerting pressure on something else wordnet

Etymology

From Latin superincumbentem, present participle of superincumbere. By surface analysis, super- + incumbent.

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