Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being superposed; not interfering with one another, or not rendering one another impossible, as two displacements or strains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of two objects Able to be
superposed on each other in such a way as tocoincide exactly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective coinciding exactly when superimposed
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Examples
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After all, the flags and the chief of the government are basically superposable.
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But that, throughout their walk, they should describe two identical curves exactly superposable on each other, is altogether unlikely.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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He holds the paper at the distance at which it was at the moment of suggestion, and folds it in the form of a rectangle exactly superposable on the card.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 1856
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