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Definition of Superimposition
1. Noun. The placing of one image on top of another, especially placing a photograph over some other graphic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Superimposition
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superimposition
Literary usage of Superimposition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"superimposition in columnar architecture, with special reference to the disposition
of the orders. The more elaborate orders are at the top ; but where ..."
2. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly Fomenko (2005)
"CHAPTER 4 The superimposition of the Bible over the phantom and real Eurasian
events of the ... The superimposition in question is demonstrated in fig. 4.5. ..."
3. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1873)
"superimposition. § i. THE reader has now some knowledge of every feature of all
possible architecture. Whatever the nature of jthe building which may be ..."
4. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"... also a superimposition of different systems of sound in the air. By each train
of waves of sound, the density of the air and the velocity and position ..."
5. A Treatise of Mechanics by Siméon-Denis Poisson (1842)
"... is also founded on the principle of the superimposition of small motions,
which, it may be observed, is susceptible of numerous applications. ..."
6. A Brief on the Modes of Proving the Facts: Most Frequently in Issue Or by Austin Abbott, Allan J. Carter (1922)
"Tracing and superimposition. The perfect correspondence of the disputed signature
with a genuine one when superimposed against the light is proof of ..."
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