SUPERIMPOSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superimposed mean? 

• SUPERIMPOSED (adjective)
  The adjective SUPERIMPOSED has 2 senses:

1. placed on or over something else

2. with one layer on top of another

  Familiarity information: SUPERIMPOSED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERIMPOSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Placed on or over something else

Synonyms:

overlying; superimposed

Context example:

an overlying image

Similar:

superjacent (lying immediately above or on something else)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With one layer on top of another

Synonyms:

layered; superimposed

Context example:

superimposed rocks

Similar:

bedded; stratified (deposited or arranged in horizontal layers)

 Context examples 

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)

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)

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)