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
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
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
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
This may be superposed upon various backgrounds with striking results.
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
There would be no reason, for example, why an angle should not be constructed equal to a given angle by superposing the given angle on another part of the plane.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
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
The melodies emerged from the symphonic depths, developing, interrupting, superposing, mingling, melting into one another, dissolving, disappearing to again appear.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
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