قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

of Supernumerary

Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment.

Exceeding a necessary, usual, or required number or quality; superfluous; as, supernumerary addresses; supernumerary expense.

A person or thing beyond the number stated.

A person or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.

Supraoccipital.

A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.

See Peroxide.

Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4.

Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10.

An acid phosphate.

Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.

A plant growing on another, as the mistletoe; an epiphyte.

To please exceedingly.

Surplus.

Surplusage.

More than politic; above or exceeding policy.

To wiegh over and above.

Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.