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
Which being cast out again superpose coals, and blowing for a long time, as at first, again uncover it, and then do as you did before.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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
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
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
Distortion of a circle due to superposed lines 62 27.
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
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 dovetail joint is also made by first laying out and cutting the members having the pins, and then superposing this on the piece to be dovetailed, and scribing around the pins.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
On superposing all these curves, a satisfactory agreement was found to exist between them.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
By superposing layers of liquid of different concentration and decreasing density, one may obtain knots and swellings in the osmotic growths marking the surfaces of separation of the liquid.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
