superpose
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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
Now it is the same thing with symmetric spherical triangles; we cannot superpose them.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
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
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
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
Their superposed states are delicate and the slightest intrusion from outside—a stray electromagnetic wave or a tiny change in temperature—can make those states vanish prematurely.
From Economist ● May 5, 2016
The electromagnetic field then transferred information about its superposed phases to the atom.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 9, 2012
Since firm texture is what is wanted, not embroidery or superposed ornament, beauty has been well defined as the purgation of superfluities.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
When they do so, the pairs start behaving like a single particle, superposing proclivities and all.
From Economist ● Feb. 23, 2012
Various colors may be obtained by superposing or intimately mixing the colors.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
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
Lay out the drawer front by superposing the dovetailed side, X, on the end of the front, Y, as in a thru dovetail.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
