hypostases
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noun
- A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
- The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
- The underlying reality or substance of something.
- The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.