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 Keene Wallace
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 Arthur Mitchell
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
V. cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Now it is the same thing with symmetric spherical triangles; we cannot superpose them.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
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
When a voltage is applied to this sandwich, the whole lot becomes a quantum system capable of existing in superposed states.
From Economist ● Feb. 23, 2012
As a rule, whenever we find the parts of one whorl superposed on those of another we may suspect some abnormality.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
When they do so, the pairs start behaving like a single particle, superposing proclivities and all.
From Economist ● Feb. 23, 2012
On superposing all these curves, a satisfactory agreement was found to exist between them.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
INTERFERENCE.—The crossing or superposing of two sets of electric waves of the same or slightly different lengths which tend to oppose each other.
From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins
A similar result is found on superposing a blue filter upon the purple one.
From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Matthew Luckiesh
Here we have the four categories of time, place, species, and form; by superposing, then, we obtain divisions of smaller extent.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
