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Superimposition

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.

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superimposition

n. The placing of one image on top of another, especially placing a photograph over some other graphic

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Superimposition (album)

Superimposition is the twelfth studio album by American pianist Eddie Palmieri. It was released by Tico Records in 1970. The album combines modern salsa renditions of Cuban standards on side A with experimental descargas (jam sessions) on side B. Since its release, the album has been praised by critics such as John Storm Roberts for its innovative approach.

Usage examples of "superimposition".

And just as interpretation in the sixteenth century, with its superimposition of a semiology upon a hermeneutics, was essentially a knowledge based upon similitude, so the odering of things by means of signs constitutes all empirical forms of knowledge as knowledge based upon identity and difference.

Scientists and contemplatives alike are challenged to distinguish between their conceptual superimpositions upon experience and the actual evidence that is being presented to their senses, including the sense of mental perception.

For example, the android talking to Rick Deckard could say a phrase, and then when we pick the other Rachael up with Isidore, she could repeat the exact words -- an audiotrack superimposition, with the voice echoing itself as in a sort of electronic echo chamber, much improved on our own.

These are the same android, and some kind of imaginative camerawork -- superimpositions or few-frame blinks back and forth between the two androids -- is much needed, and could be a major attraction of the film.

In a series of quick superimpositions Carlyle saw the great day when the flood receded altogether.

The only useful analogy he could devise for the experience was that of a motion picture in which he was both actor and audience member—a film with both slow and fast motion, with freeze frames and superimpositions, with the sound track from one sequence playing over the images of another, with single-frame subliminal flashes that were more felt than perceived, with long stretches of underexposed, out-of-focus pictures, and dialogue played under speed, mushy and basso.

The commentator's superimpositions told him that this very Keep had been a Fish Speaker Command Center abandoned during the Scattering.