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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of superpose.

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Examples

  • These characteristics of the country rock, however, are likely to be masked at the outcrop by later weathering, which superposes a kaolinic or clayey alteration.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • In the case of a classical system for which a superposition principle holds, for instance a vibrating membrane, when one superposes a state with itself the result is a different state, with a different magnitude of the oscillations.

    A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis) 2007

  • It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself with a sort of suction.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • He superposes on the determinism of physical phenomena the indeterminism of human actions, and, consequently, on time-length a time in which there is invention, creation, true succession.

    Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

  • I may say that the scale of the portraits need not be uniform, as my apparatus enlarges or reduces as required, at the same time that it superposes the images; but the portraits of the heads should never be less than twice the size of that of the Queen on a halfpenny piece.

    Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866

  • It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself with a sort of suction.

    Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862

  • It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself with a sort of suction.

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • Leipzig, 1892.] [Footnote 21: There are really two lines to follow in contemporary neo-vitalism: on the one hand, the assertion that pure mechanism is insufficient, which assumes great authority when made by such scientists as Driesch or Reinke, for example; and, on the other hand, the hypotheses which this vitalism superposes on mechanism (the

    Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

  • E. coli SSADH was purified and crystallised in the presence of the reducing agent β-mercaptoethanol, and accordingly, the structure we report most closely resembles the active form of human SSADH (2w8o) and superposes with a root-mean-square deviation of 0.79 Å over 472 Cα (2w8o and Monomer A,

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Christopher G. Langendorf et al. 2010

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