superpose

In a general way, measuring is a wholly human operation, which implies that we really or ideally superpose two objects one on another a certain number of times.

From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell

Which being cast out again superpose coals, and blowing for a long time, as at first, again uncover it, and then do as you did before.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

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

From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

This the roving waves bore over the submerged and now peaty forests, and deposited above them the elements of rocks which were to superpose the coal strata.

From The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern by Jules Verne

On restoring the wire to its original place, it will be extremely flexible, and we may now superpose several contrary polarities under contrary torsions, as already described.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various

Like entanglement, the superposed states essential to its power are fragile, collapsing when measured or otherwise perturbed by the outside world.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2021

Quantum computers, in contrast, traffic in qubits, which are constructed out of superposed particles that embody numerous states simultaneously.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2021

This is further supported by the dust lanes superposed on the host nucleus17, 61.

From Nature ● Oct. 15, 2017

Their superposed states are delicate and the slightest intrusion from outside—a stray electromagnetic wave or a tiny change in temperature—can make those states vanish prematurely.

From Economist ● May 5, 2016

The refuse of all ages is superposed, like the leaves of a book, one stratum above another in orderly succession.

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

When they do so, the pairs start behaving like a single particle, superposing proclivities and all.

From Economist ● Feb. 23, 2012

In 1858, Mr. Claudet conceived the idea of projecting the two stereoscopic images upon ground glass in superposing them.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 by Various

The method for superposing the two spaces on one another was deduced by Sir David Brewster in 1856, but he does not appear to have dealt with the problem of range-finding.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

There would be no reason, for example, why an angle should not be constructed equal to a given angle by superposing the given angle on another part of the plane.

From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

The height of fall was measured by superposing the hole in the moving screen upon that in the fixed one.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various