super-, supra-, sur-

Referring to something that is encircled or enclosed.

1. An additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed.
2. A tax levied on corporations, or individuals, after net income has exceeded a certain level.
3. Etymology: from French surtaxe; from Old French sur-, "over" + taxe, "tax".

1. A man's long close-fitting overcoat.
2. A hood with a mantle, worn by women.
3. A term that has been used to refer to all types of coats and cloaks.

1. A constant observation of a person, or a group; especially, anyone who is suspected of doing something illegal or thought to be a potential miscreant: There are now several U.S. government agencies that provide surveillances of suspected terrorists.
2. The act of keeping a careful eye someone or something in order to detect or to prevent any kind of felonious act or to provide evidence of such actions: The surveillances provided by the bank's video cameras helped to identify the bank robbers.

Electronic surveillances are being utilized by more cities around the world in order to apprehend lawbreakers who are involved in illegal activities.

3. Etymology: from French surveillance, "oversight, supervision, a watch"; a noun of action from surveiller, "oversee, watch"; from sur-, "over" + veiller, "to watch" from Latin vigilare, from vigil, "watchful, awake, wakeful". © ALL rights are reserved.
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1. A close observation; especially, of a suspected spy or transgressor: Although he was not aware of it, the criminal investigators had a surveillant on the man because there was an indication that he might be up to some kind of dangerous activity.
2. Etymology: from Latin sur, "over" + veiller, "watch" or vigilare, "to keep watch".

1. A detailed inspection or view of something: The TV producers were making surveys of public opinions regarding the politicians who were running for office.
2. A comprehensive literary examination, description, or discussion in order to make a judgement about something: The professor was making a survey of the poetry that the students submitted to him which he assigned them to create.
3. Etymology: from Middle English surveien, from Old French surveeir, from Latin supervidere; super-, "over" + videre, "to look, to see".

1. To examine or to look at comprehensively.
2. To inspect carefully; to scrutinize: The police were surveying the people who were getting off the train to see if they could see the criminal that they were looking for.
3. To determine the boundaries, area, or elevations of (land or structures on the earth's surface) by means of measuring angles and distances, using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry.
4. Etymology: from Old French surveeir; which came from Middle Latin supervidere, "to oversee"; from Latin super-, "over" + videre, "to see, to look".

A survey; an inspection.

The measurement of dimensional relationships, as of horizontal distances, elevations, directions, and angles, on the earth's surface especially for use in locating property boundaries, construction layout, and mapmaking.

1. An engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures.
2. Someone who conducts a statistical survey.
3. Someone whose occupation is taking accurate measurements of land areas in order to determine boundaries, elevations, and dimensions.

1. A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment.
2. A state of surviving or remaining alive.
3. A person or thing that survives, or endures; especially, an ancient custom, observance, belief, or the like.

1. To continue to live; to endure or to last.
2. To remain alive or in existence or able to live or function; especially, to succeed in staying alive when faced with a life-threatening danger.
3. Etymology: originally in the legal (inheritance) sense, from Anglo-French survivre; from Old French souvivre; from Latin supervivere. "to live beyond, to live longer than"; from super, "over, beyond" + vivere, "to live".

1. Someone who outlives another person or other people.
2. Anyone who lives through afflictions or dangers.
3. Someone who remains alive despite being exposed to a life-threatening danger.
4. A person with great powers of endurance; such as, somebody who shows a great will to live or a great determination to overcome difficulties and to carry on.
5. In law, the one of two or more people having joint interests in property who lives longer than the other, or others, and is, therefore, entitled to the entire property.

The right of a joint tenant, or other person, who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of the other one.

Survivorship is particularly applied to those owning real property or other assets; such as, bank accounts or stocks, in "joint tenancy".

Joint tenancy includes the right of survivorship automatically; except that in some states in the United States, joint tenancy of a bank account creates only a presumption of survivorship which might be legally disproved by evidence that the joint tenancy was only for convenience.

A centrifugal air compressor driven by a gas turbine: A tuborsupercharger is used to increase the induction pressure in an internal combustion engine.