Usually means: Rotation of forearm, palm upward.
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  1. supination: Merriam-Webster
  2. supination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. supination: Collins English Dictionary
  4. supination: Vocabulary.com
  5. supination: Wordnik
  6. supination: Wiktionary
  7. supination: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. supination: Dictionary.com
  9. Supination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Supination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. supination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. supination: Rhymezone
  13. Supination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. supination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. supination: FreeDictionary.org
  16. supination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Supination: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supination: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. supination: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Supination: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. supination: Medical dictionary
  7. Supination: Drug Medical Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. supination: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Supination: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (supination)

noun:  The act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.
noun:  (anatomy) The act of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned up or forward, or the resulting state of the forearm
noun:  (anatomy) The act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot.
noun:  (fencing) The position of the sword hand when the palm is facing up.

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