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Superposition

noun

(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. Synonyms: 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.

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Huygens' principle of superposition

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... example of the primary awakening of the contrectation impulse, and the secondary superposition of the phenomena of detumescence. The patient is a man thirty-two years of age, somewhat neurasthenic, but, as far as I could ascertain, free from any other morbid manifestations. "At the age of seven I went to school; at first to a private school, ...

— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll

... by the hewing, facing, and superposition of the stones of the Pyramids, that these structures were built by men, has no greater weight than the evidence that the chalk was built by Globigerinae; and the belief that those ancient pyramid-builders ...

— Autobiography and Selected Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley

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