SUPERIMPOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superimpose mean? 

• SUPERIMPOSE (verb)
  The verb SUPERIMPOSE has 1 sense:

1. place on top of

  Familiarity information: SUPERIMPOSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERIMPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they superimpose    ... he / she / it superimposes   
Past simple: superimposed   
Past participle: superimposed   
-ing form: superimposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place on top of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lay over; superimpose; superpose

Context example:

can you superimpose the two images?

Hypernyms (to "superimpose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "superimpose"):

develop (superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Oh, there could be no question as to the superimposing of the footmarks.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Chronic colitis with superimposed neutrophilic mucosal infiltrates.

(Chronic Active Colitis, NCI Thesaurus)

The coexistence of a chronic inflammatory process with a superimposed polymorphonuclear neutrophilic infiltration.

(Chronic Active Inflammation, NCI Thesaurus)

Exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; being the exact same one; coinciding exactly when superimposed; having properties with uniform values along all axes.

(Identical, NCI Thesaurus)

This subtraction technique allows extraction of a high-intensity signal from the superimposed background information.

(Digital Subtraction Angiography, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

After the gel electrophoresis, the gel is scanned with the excitation wavelength of each dye and the imges are superimposed, allowing detection of changes in protein abundance between samples.

(Differential In-Gel Electrophoresis, NCI Thesaurus)

An inflammatory skin condition in the diaper area superimposed with Candida infection, characterized by a bright red rash with a sharply demarcated edge and satellite lesions.

(Candida Diaper Dermatitis, NCI Thesaurus)

The brightest eruption features, which appear to be discrete jets, look to them to be superimposed intermittently upon this background structure.

(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)