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superpose

[soo-per-pohz] / ˌsu pərˈpoʊz /


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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

To put over or upon; as to superpose one rock upon another.

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins

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

What has been accomplished is to superpose upon the ancient organic France another arbitrary and administrative France.

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

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

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

From Nature ● Oct. 15, 2017

Researchers have proposed and demonstrated several technologies exploiting entangled and superposed quantum states, such as .

From Scientific American ● Oct. 9, 2012

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

The eyes are in motion most of the time, hence, certain effects of an illusory nature may be superposed upon stationary objects.

From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Matthew Luckiesh

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

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

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

An opaque sky, which had a solid air and was made of accumulated, small, horizontal layers, as if one had painted it by superposing pastes of dead colors.

From Ramuntcho by Pierre Loti


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