posterior
posterior Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end, especially of the body or a part of it.
"The surgeon carefully examined the posterior wall of the heart during the procedure."
Relating to or denoting a probability distribution that has been revised by incorporating new evidence or observations (in Bayesian statistics).
"After analyzing the clinical trial data, the researchers calculated the posterior probability of the treatment's effectiveness."
Coming after in time or order; later or subsequent.
"The historian noted that the manuscript's annotations were clearly posterior to the original text."
• noun
A person's buttocks (often used euphemistically or humorously).
"He slipped on the icy pavement and landed squarely on his posterior."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 16th century from Latin posterior ('later, hinder'), the comparative form of posterus ('coming after, following'), derived from the preposition post ('after, behind').