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superimposed

/soo-per-im-pohzd/US // ˌsu pər ɪmˈpoʊzd //

叠加的,叠加,叠加式,重叠的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Geology.

    • : having a course not adjusted to the structure of the rocks presently undergoing erosion but determined rather by a prior erosion cycle or by formerly overlying rocks or sediments.

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Examples

  • A series of images flash onto the screen, superimposed over a bleak landscape.

  • People will laugh, but for the helicopters and tanks, we just photographed some kids toys and superimposed them.

  • They superimposed a radar image of the coming storm over a map of the Houston area and broadcast it.

  • For weeks, Photoshoppers superimposed other images next to McCain, making for some very tongue-in-cheek pictures.

  • Jurors watched spellbound as a piece of recovered duct tape was superimposed over her tiny nose and mouth.

  • They lie either singly or superimposed to form more or less irregular clusters (Fig. 36).

  • At the southern angle of the block, he found a mass of superimposed rocks, probably fragments of the fallen summit.

  • The building has a stone vault, the flat mud roof of the country being superimposed as an outer covering.

  • It was a "communistic despotism," a community with a despot and a ruling class superimposed upon its socialism.

  • The abacus superimposed might be on a very thin, little more than formal, as at b; but on c must be thick, as at d.