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/sooh'peuhr el'euh vay"sheuhn/, n.bank1 (def. 6).[1645-55, in sense "elevation to a higher rank"; 1885-90 for current sense; SUPER- + ELEVATION]
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Universalium. 2010.
superelevation
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