superimpose

English

Etymology

super- +‎ impose

Pronunciation

• enPR: so͞oʹ-pər-ĭm-pōz', IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.pəɹ.ɪm.ˌpəʊ̯z/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.pɚ.ɪm.ˌpoʊ̯z/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.pəɹ.ɪm.ˌpəʊ̯z/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːpəɹɪmpəʊz

Verb

superimpose (third-person singular simple present superimposes, present participle superimposing, simple past and past participle superimposed)

1. To place an object over another object, usually in such a way that both will be visible.

   Synonyms: overlay, superpose

   He superimposed the company logo over the image.

   • 2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume 47, →DOI, pages 2336–2347:

     His protagonists all suffer from severe sense of guilt which cannot be explained from the actions and occurrences in the stories itself. What is happening in reality is that the sense of guilt is implied by the author and narrator. In fact Franz Kafka superimposes his autistic guilt onto the protagonists of his stories which has the effect that the causal mechanisms behind the guilt felt by the protagonists cannot be discerned from events within the story.

2. (geology) To establish a structural system over, independently of underlying structures.

Translations

to place an object over another object

• Bulgarian: налагам (bg) (nalagam), слагам отгоре (slagam otgore)
• Catalan: superposar (ca)
• Finnish: laittaa päälle
• French: superposer (fr)
• German: überlagern (de), darüberlegen (de), darübersetzen, überblenden (de), vorblenden, daraufsetzen, einblenden (de), einkopieren, aufsetzen (de), auflegen (de), über etwas setzen, auf etwas setzen, über etwas legen, über etwas setzen
• Italian: sovrapporre (it)
• Russian: накла́дывать (ru) impf (nakládyvatʹ), наложи́ть (ru) pf (naložítʹ)
• Spanish: sobreponer (es), superimponer

See also

• impose