SUPERIMPOSED Definition & Meaning

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superimposed

[soo-per-im-pohzd]

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adjective

being or relating to something that is placed over something else, usually characterized by some degree of transparency so that both the background and foreground objects are visible.
The title credits appeared over the dusky opening scene in superimposed white text.
Geology.��(of a stream or drainage system) having a course not adjusted to the structure of the rocks presently undergoing erosion but determined instead by a prior erosion cycle or by formerly overlying rocks or sediments.
Botany.��(of a plant part) growing one over another, but separately, as in layers.
The superimposed whorls of petals give these begonia blossoms a roselike appearance.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of superimpose.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of superimposed¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; superimpose + -ed ²

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A unique, new line of MLB hats for fans displays a team’s uniform logo with the same team’s hat logo superimposed on top of it in the center.

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With news cameras in southern Gaza lingering on a knot of masked fighters, a Hebrew-language banner was clearly visible behind them, superimposed with the prime minister’s face.

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Cara Hunter of the Social Democratic and Labour Party was targeted in a deepfake video three years ago, when her face was digitally superimposed on to the face of another person.

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The result was fully in character, photographed in murky black-and-white for a worldwide online audience, and layered with Lynchian imagery and juxtapositions: smoke, fire, strange objects and dead animals superimposed over the band.

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Chirality in molecules means they have a specific orientation in space such that the mirror image of the molecule in question cannot be perfectly superimposed on the original.

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superimpose superincumbent

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