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The placement of one thing on top of another
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superposition
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Superposition \Su`per*po*si"tion\, n. [Cf. F. superposition. See Super- , and Position .] The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Superposition may refer to: Superposition principle in physics, mathematics, and engineering, describes the overlapping of waves. Particular applications include: Quantum superposition , in quantum physics Superposition theorem , in electronic engineering ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest [syn: principle of superposition , superposition principle ] (geometry) the placement ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The placing of one thing on top of another 2 (context geology English) The deposition of one stratum over another; the principle that in a series of sedimentary strata, the lower strata are the older
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French superposition , from Late Latin superpositionem (nominative superpositio ) "a placing over," noun of action from past participle stem of superponere "to place over," from super (see super- ) + ponere "to put, place" (past participle positus ...
Usage examples of superposition.
Even a patch of near-vacuum in the middle of interstellar space owed its near-Euclidean geometry to the fact that it was an elaborate superposition of a multitude of graphs, each one riddled with virtual particles.
The quantum subtleties that could, in principle, render the whole superposition visible were buried in the sheer number of details that would have had to be tracked in order to observe it.
Life had still arisen here, thirty orders of magnitude up the length scale, as heroic and miraculous as some hardy plant on a frozen mountain peak, but all the while, infinitely richer possibilities had been buzzing through the superposition that the dead vacuum concealed.
Once they put the ship into a superposition of strategies, each component would know the kind of place it would end up in, if it ended up anywhere at all.
In principle, this was just another quantum computation, no different from the commonplace operation of turning a string of zeros into a superposition of every possible binary number of the same length.
Then it would release the resulting superposition into the depths of the far side, and wait for the reply that would enable it to erase all its failures.
The maximum effect produced by superposition of stimuli increases with the intensity of the constituent stimuli.
Specifically, he and an anesthesiologist named Hameroff argue that quantum superposition of isolated electrons in the microtubules of brain cells creates the phenomenon of consciousness.
But all our actions will have been part of that reality, including the detection of the superposition that includes the time explosion.
Light-filled and the Dark-filled parts of space and the mutual superposition of which he believed to be responsible for the appearance of the respective colours, does not solve the problem.
Increasingly, he was beginning to think that the infinity of variants coexisted in one vast superposition, stacked like a series of clear overlays, varying very little from one to the next, but gradually shading into major differences.
The instability was a complex superposition of wave shapes clustered along the length of the migrating vortex line, a superposition which spiraled around the line like some malevolent animal clambering toward her.
A group at Delft University in the Netherlands had arranged for a simple quantum computer to carry out a sequence of arithmetic operations on a register which had been prepared to contain an equal superposition of binary representations of two different numbers.
Through mathematical procedures, we can predict complementarity of position and momenTurn and the superposition of states.
Cass plus flower--and she could never hope to prevent the parts that lay outside her from entering superpositions of different classical outcomes, generating versions of her who witnessed different external events.