superpose

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But in this fickle and aberrated mind ideas superpose themselves on each other, then pass away, and those which disappear leave their shadow on those which follow.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

But if we superpose the pure spectral colours on a screen, the resulting colours are quite 729 different.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

Now it is the same thing with symmetric spherical triangles; we cannot superpose them.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

On this new ground philosophy ought then to follow science, in order to superpose on scientific truth a knowledge of another kind, which may be called metaphysical.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

It will come from one side of this partition to superpose itself on the hydrostatic pressure, which latter must have the same value on both sides.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien