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

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

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

From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

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

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

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

The electromagnetic field then transferred information about its superposed phases to the atom.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 9, 2012

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

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 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

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

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