Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of superimposing, or the state of being superimposed.
Wiktionary
- n. The placing of one image on top of another, especially placing a photograph over some other graphic
Examples
“It is worth qualifying that the Blakean "superimposition" just described is not here intended to invoke and be related to the so-called (linear) "superposition" of quantum mechanics.”
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.
“Language allows of the co-ordination of the pronouns of the first and the third person ( 'It is I,' 'I am he who,' &c.; ete vayam, ame vayam âsmahe), but not of the co-ordination of the pronouns of the first and second person.] [Footnote 34: Adhyâsa, literally 'superimposition' in the sense of”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
“Some indeed define the term 'superimposition' as the superimposition of the attributes of one thing on another thing. [”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
“This disgusting superimposition is nothing more than a fantasy, lead defense attorney Jose Baez said while arguing against it.”
“Back in 1968, the commission rejected Marcel Breuer's modernist design for the gutting of Grand Central Terminal 1913 and the superimposition of a stark office tower above its vestigial shell.”
“The impressionistic "Castro Street" 1966, now part of the National Film Registry, turns a railroad odyssey into a dream-poem of American industry through artful superimposition and graceful tracking shots that mimic the path of the rails.”
“Sensitive and Accurate: Through the detection of the tiny magnetic fields generated by brain activity, and showing where that occurs in the brain (with superimposition on MRI) patients may be appropriately selected for surgical resection.”
“One particular Hollywood element one wishes to imagine the absence of in this film is the overbearing superimposition of music – no”
“A sense of continuity across the millennia derives from the superimposition here of architectural forms from distinct yet inextricably related cultures.”
The Wall Street Journal: Where the Ancient Past Is Palpably Present
“The superimposition of a constitutional democracy's hardware on the public life of a country that has lived only with autocracy of one form or other leaves the software of democracy still to be developed, installed, and learned.”
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