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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
superimpose
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
▪ People observing photographs might have come to the conclusion that my head had been superimposed on to some one else's body.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I was still conscious of the desert upon which this scene was superimposed.
▪ In both countries the crisis superimposed itself on more chronic economic problems.
▪ Jobs are artificial units superimposed on this field.
▪ The helical axes have significantly different directions in the two structures, and it is not possible to superimpose the helices.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Superimpose

Superimpose \Su`per*im*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Superimposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Superimposing.] To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. -- Su`per*im`po*si"tion, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
superimpose

1787, back-formation from superimposition (1680s), or from super- + impose. Compare Latin superimponere "to put upon, place over, place above." Related: Superimposed; superimposing.

Wiktionary
superimpose

vb. To place an object over another object, usually in such a way that both will be visible.

WordNet
superimpose

v. place on top of; "can you superimpose the two images?" [syn: superpose, lay over]

Usage examples of "superimpose".

It was a broad-spread, rich alluvium superimposed upon earlier strata of immigration, out of which was to spring the sturdy growth of American Presbyterianism, as well as of other Christian organizations.

He cursed out loud, scolding himself for his inability to release the memories: the maelstrom of hypnagogic images superimposed upon all that he saw, the recollections of the accident tearing apart and blending back together again in a blurry mixture of lucid truth and deceptive mirage, the deafening blare of the horns in helpless warning, the walls of the chambers flashing in a fluctuating rhythm to the horns, between glowing red and pitch black, the faces burning and falling off everyone as the radiation surge hit, the crumbling support beams collapsing all about them, his own flesh melting, the blackness closing in.

Maxwell Cade suggests that highly advanced visitors might conceivably have left information about themselves and their culture by superimposing it, in microform, onto rock crystals.

The largest, central monitor could synthesize the monochromatic images, superimposing them as instructed.

They were plums grown in the vast Martian greenhouses, juicy and pitless, with a faint cinnamon flavor superimposed on their fruitiness.

They were plums grown in the vast Martian greenhouses, juicy and pitless, with a faint cinnamon flavor superimposed on their fruit-iness.

His mind and body were absorbed by the act of superimposing the laser designation reticle onto the ventilator shaft of the bunker below.

A provision, superimposed upon the general Antitrust Law, for revocation of the licenses of fire insurance companies which enter into illegal combinations, does not violate the equal protection clause.

Flaubert intervenes: to this first mythical system, which already is a second semiological system, he superimposes a third chain, in which the first link is the signification, or final term, of the first myth.

And superimposed on that, like a doubled image in a flawed glass, herself clutching at Spens like a desperate teenager, frenzied only for the touch of his hands.

Superimposed on this frightening image was the face of that damned girl, scanning the back of his braincase with those obsidian eyes.

Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.

We went out and explored the city in the fading light of evening, drifting the gray Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.

In worming against her warmth he has pulled her dress up from her knees, and their repulsive breadth and pallor, laid bare defenselessly, superimposed upon the tiny, gamely gritted teeth the boy exposed for him, this old whiteness strained through this fine mesh, make a milk that feels to Eccles like his own blood.

Olafson waited the fifteen seconds, and then did something to her lapboard that caused a series of aiming circles to be superimposed on the overhead dome.