Crossword clues for superposition
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
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 of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide
the placement of one thing on top of another
Wikipedia
Superposition may refer to:
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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
- Superposition calculus, used in logic for equational first-order reasoning
- Law of superposition in geology and archaeology, which states that sedimentary layers are deposited in a time sequence, with the oldest on the bottom and the youngest on the top
- In chemistry, a property of two structures that have the same chirality
- Superposition (EP), 2002 album by the band Kling Klang
- Superposition (art installation), an art installation programme commissioned by the Institute of Physics
- In music theory, "reaching over," see Schenkerian analysis#Lines between voices, reaching over
Superposition (Artwork) is a programme of art inspired by physics.
Superposition is a programme commissioned by the Institute of Physics in London. It is, in 2013, in its first year and a large installation is planned in an underground space beneath the London Canal Museum in King's Cross, London. The site is a former ice well constructed around 1863 for the storage of imported natural ice, that is not normally open to the public. The artist Lyndall Phelps, inspired by the work of particle physicist Dr. Ben Still, has designed a large structure consisting of concentric rings in a framework suspended from the soffit, from which hang strings of disks. The disks are of clear plastic but they are fitted with coloured beads and diamantes. The disks are connected by small brass rods. The specific artwork in the ice well has the title "Covariance".
It is the provisional plan of the Institute to commission further installations of art inspired by physics in the future.
Special arrangements have been made between the Institute and the London Canal Museum to enable members of the public to visit the underground site and see the artwork in August, September, and October 2013.
Superposition is notable for its rare combination of art, physics, and industrial heritage. Physicists conduct some of their experiments under ice, and underground. This is the link to the heritage of the ice wells. The work of art itself is the result of an unusual collaboration between an artist and a physicist.
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.