The Collaborative International Dictionary
Superpose \Su`per*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Superposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Superposing.] [F. superposer. See Super-, and Pose.]
To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
(Geom.) To lay (a figure) upon another in such a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other; as, to superpose one plane figure on another.
Wiktionary
1 superimposed 2 (context botany English) That grows vertically above another part v
(en-past of: superpose)
Usage examples of "superposed".
Every phoneme was formed of two or three superposed sounds, and every morpheme was a blend of phonemes, flowing together like water.
If insect or other animal tracks are superposed on the hoofprints, this also argues against their freshness.
The Utopian tongue might well present a more spacious coalescence, and hold in the frame of such an uninflected or slightly inflected idiom as English already presents, a profuse vocabulary into which have been cast a dozen once separate tongues, superposed and then welded together through bilingual and trilingual compromises.
When several phenomena are superposed in the same system, the dissymmetries are added together.
They remain what they always have been, a small feudality of brigands superposed on conquered France.
If the natural conscience murmurs in whispers at moments, the acquired superposed conscience immediately imposes silence, concealing personal hatreds under public pretexts: the guillotined, after all, were aristocrats, and whoever comes under the guillotine is immoral.
In the north of Italy, the fresh seeds are alone used, and after they have been crushed and the seed coats very carefully removed with a winnowing machine and by hand, the blanched seeds are put into small hempen bags, which are arranged in superposed layers in a powerful hydraulic press, with a sheet of iron heated to 90 degrees F.
VISAR presented her as a head and shoulders superposed into Hunt's visual system against the background of the cabin.