[f. SUPER- 2 + IMPOSITION, after L. superimpōnĕre (see prec.).] The action of superimposing, or state of being superimposed; superposition.
1684. Phil. Trans., XIV. 674. The side OC = BC, CD = AC, the angle D = A, and OCD = BCA, which is manifest by taking the common angle ACO out of the 2 right angles BCO, ACD, therefore by superimposition the whole triangles are equal.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Venice, I. i. § 28. The arrangement of the nave pier in the form of a cross accompanies the superimposition of the vaulting shaft.
1879. H. George, Progr. & Pov., II. ii. (1881), 97. Mexico, as Cortez found it, showed the superimposition of barbarism upon a higher development.
1907. Ameer Ali, in 19th Cent., Nov., 703. The superimposition of the utilitarian and not very altruistic civilisation of the West on the Indian civilisations has produced some anomalous features.
So Superimposure, something superimposed.
1875. Browning, Aristop. Apol., 1527. Show the base—The live rock latent under wave and foam: Superimposure these!
