BENEATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beneath mean? 

• BENEATH (adverb)
  The adverb BENEATH has 1 sense:

1. in or to a place that is lower

  Familiarity information: BENEATH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENEATH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In or to a place that is lower

Synonyms:

at a lower place; below; beneath; to a lower place

 Context examples 

Some of the sites that have shapes and compositions consistent with volcanic eruptions beneath an ice sheet are about 1,000 miles (about 1,600 kilometers) from the current south polar ice cap of Mars.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)

The Mariana Trench is where the western Pacific Ocean plate slides beneath the Mariana Plate and sinks deep into the Earth's mantle as the plates slowly converge.

(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)

This follows the finding of a 19-mile-wide crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier – the first meteorite impact crater ever discovered under Earth’s ice sheets.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has concluded that bacteria in a lake 800 meters (2,600 feet) beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may digest methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, preventing its release into the atmosphere.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

The straight edges of some Cerean craters, including Haulani, result from pre-existing stress patterns and faults beneath the surface.

(New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters, NASA)

Fiber-optic cables in a global undersea telecommunications network could one day help scientists study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures hidden deep beneath the ocean surface.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

Such zones are found where two of Earth's tectonic plates collide, with the heavier plate sinking beneath the lighter one and moving material into Earth's interior.

(Major deep carbon sink linked to microbes at volcanic island chains, National Science Foundation)

Either possiblity for the interior of Mimas would be interesting, according to Tajeddine, as the moon's heavily cratered outward appearance does not suggest anything unusual lies beneath its surface.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

A layer of extracellular matrix found beneath the single pavement layer of cells which line the luminal surface of the entire vascular system.

(Basal Lamina of the Vascular Endothelium, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of large fibrous proteins contained within the layer of extracellular matrix found beneath epithelial tissues.

(Basal Lamina Collagen, NCI Thesaurus)