anteriority
/an-teer-ee-er/US // ænˈtɪər i ər //UK // (ænˈtɪərɪə) //
前置性,前置,前瞻性,前部
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : situated before or at the front of; fore.
- : going before in time or sequence; preceding; earlier: events anterior to the outbreak of war.
- : Linguistics. articulated in the region extending from the alveolar ridge to the lips; alveolar, dental, or labial.
- : pertaining to or toward the head or forward end of the body.
- : pertaining to or toward the front plane of the body, equivalent to the ventral surface of quadrupeds.
- : Botany. on the front side and away from the main axis, as the lower lip of a flower.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as infront office
as inantecedence
Examples
On the other hand, anteriority and posteriority exist in dimension as well as in numbers.
The ogive is, perhaps, very ancient; and authors dispute as to the anteriority of the Romanesque to the Gothic.
This anteriority of nature is a commonplace in philosophy: thus one says that the decrees of God have an order among themselves.
We should here draw a distinction between the two senses of the a priori: anteriority and superiority.
A simple physical mechanism may be a priori, in the sense of anteriority.
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