underlying

English

Adjective

underlying (not comparable)

1. lying underneath

   We dug down to the underlying rock.

2. basic or fundamental

   Points and straight lines are underlying elements of geometry.

   • 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:

     The underlying problem with transport policy is that there no coherent strategy. Ministers have tended to encourage greater use of motor vehicles through both transport and (particularly) planning policies, while simultaneously warning of the terrible consequences of unfettered growth of road use.

3. implicit

   Many nursery rhymes have an underlying meaning.

Translations

lying underneath

• Catalan: subjacent
• Dutch: onderliggend (nl)
• Finnish: alla oleva
• French: sous-jacent (fr) m

• German: darunterliegend
• Greek: υποκείμενος (el) m (ypokeímenos)
• Hungarian: alatta/lejjebb lévő/fekvő/rejlő/húzódó/meghúzódó
• Italian: sottostante (it)

basic or fundamental

• Catalan: subjacent
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 根本 (zh) (gēnběn), 基本 (zh) (jīběn), 底層 (zh), 底层 (zh) (dǐcéng)

• Czech: základní (cs)
• Finnish: perustana oleva
• French: sous-jacent (fr)

• Georgian: ძირითადი (ʒiritadi)
• Greek: θεμελιώδης (el) m (themeliódis)
• Hungarian: alapvető (hu), elemi (hu), alapjául szolgáló
• Italian: basilare (it), fondamentale (it)
• Swedish: underliggande (sv)

implicit

• Catalan: subjacent
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隱含 (zh), 隐含 (zh) (yǐnhán)

• Danish: underliggende
• Dutch: achterliggend (nl)
• French: sous-jacent (fr)
• German: implizit (de)

• Hungarian: mögöttes, mögötte meghúzódó, hátterében álló
• Italian: implicito (it) m
• Portuguese: implícito (pt) m, subjacente (pt)
• Spanish: subyacente (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} achterliggend (nl)

Noun

underlying (plural underlyings)

1. (finance) The entity from whose performance a derivative derives its value.

Verb

underlying

1. present participle of underlie

Anagrams

• enduringly