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Definition of "superpose" []

  • To set or place (one thing) over or above something else. (verb-transitive)
  • Mathematics To place (one geometric figure) over another so that all like parts coincide. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "superpose" in a sentence
  • "OVERVIEW: The world of the novel is our world with Internet, cell phones, all the usual countries and one addition - a "dual" city Beszel and Ul Qoma that occupy the same physical space in the sense that they intertwine and even superpose in selected areas known as "crosshatches"."
  • "Further, I await the outcome of experiments to superpose viruses."
  • "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."