superpose
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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
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
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
We may give isolated single taps or superpose a series in rapid succession according as the wheel is rotated slow or fast.
From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
V. cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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
This is further supported by the dust lanes superposed on the host nucleus17, 61.
From Nature ● Oct. 15, 2017
Those superposed probabilities can, moreover, rise and fall with time.
From Economist ● Jun. 18, 2015
Researchers have proposed and demonstrated several technologies exploiting entangled and superposed quantum states, such as .
From Scientific American ● Oct. 9, 2012
She took up the sheet of paper again, and with the tears falling down her cheeks, she read the postscript which was superposed, as it were, on to the first.
From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes
When they do so, the pairs start behaving like a single particle, superposing proclivities and all.
From Economist ● Feb. 23, 2012
A second arrangement consists in superposing the end of the exhaust-pipe upon a casing of suitable size, which casing is partitioned off by several perforated baffle-plates.
As the need for this diminished, two large additional rooms were gained by raising the central wall a story, and superposing a flat, lead roof.
From Memorials of Old London Volume I by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
The melodies emerged from the symphonic depths, developing, interrupting, superposing, mingling, melting into one another, dissolving, disappearing to again appear.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
Superposi′tion, act of superposing: state of being superposed: that which is above anything.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
