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superpose

[soo-per-pohz] / ˌsu pərˈpoʊz /


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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 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

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

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 Lucien Poincaré

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

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

More surprisingly, Indian architecture, which was only beginning to become widely known through watercolors, has left its imprint on the superposed lintels supported by the pillars.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2011

Their periods are quite regular, but there are two or more maxima and minima of light in each period, as if the variation were caused by superposed relations in some way.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd

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

From Economist ● Feb. 23, 2012

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

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

All such wave-motions can be produced by superposing a number of simple wave forms.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson

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


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