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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of superpose.
  • adjective superimposed
  • adjective botany That grows vertically above another part

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Examples

  • Nonetheless, Follett's description of the difference between what he calls "superposed" and "parallel" adjectives makes more sense to me than any other discussion of the subject I've seen.

    Word Court 2005

  • Nonetheless, Follett's description of the difference between what he calls "superposed" and "parallel" adjectives makes more sense to me than any other discussion of the subject I've seen.

    Word Court 2005

  • I once shot a factory shell, brand unknown now that slid about 1/2 up inside the chamber of my Browning 12 gauge superposed. the gun in question bought new by me in 1963 and still has probably less than 3500 rds thru it.

    Bad Shells 2008

  • There's a whole series of mismatches here, each superposed on the others, but the worst of them is the poetic prose.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • When rare events are superposed against rare events, the association between them can be striking.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • When rare events are superposed against rare events, the association between them can be striking.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • There's a whole series of mismatches here, each superposed on the others, but the worst of them is the poetic prose.

    Craig Raine, Heartbreak (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

  • When rare events are superposed against rare events, the association between them can be striking.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • This false-color image is a composite of X-rays (red) and UV and optical (blue/green), superposed on a deeper ground-based optical image to show the background stars.

    Hot light from a cold comet 2009

  • On the other hand do we see the jets over large scales the overall structure not the knots, so this could be a steady "ground"-flow that is superposed by some knots/flares.

    The Shrinking Doughnut Around a Black Hole | Universe Today 2009

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