Definition of superimpose
: to place or lay over or above something
- superimposed images
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A triangle superimposed on an inverted triangle forms a six-pointed star.
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The sisters faced quite the backlash after the shirt’s design — which featured the sisters’ faces superimposed over images of famous deceased musicians including Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G. and Jim Morrison of The Doors — first hit the internet.
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An enlarged version of Henry McIntyre’s 1852 map of the city has been superimposed on the floor.
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Briefly, anyone’s face can now be superimposed on anyone else’s, creating uncannily authentic videos of just about anything.
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So there are portraits of Bowie by British photographer Gavin Edwards and concert posters and a Banksy print over the master bed of the Queen with a Stardust lightning bolt superimposed over her face.
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My freshman year of college, an enterprising student with access to a color printer made imitation lost dog posters that showed a picture of their friend's face superimposed on a dog's torso, and posted them all over campus.
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One of them, above, showed a tiny amputee cartoon figure hiking up a hill to school with the aid of crutches, superimposed over the palm of a large hand.
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Catherine Templeton, a white Republican woman running for governor in South Carolina, is a Steve Bannon-loving, Charleston, S.C., church-massacre-denying proud daughter of the Confederacy but had no problem superimposing her campaign logo over MLK.
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The $1,000 glasses can superimpose digital images on the real world, and with Alexa, people can presumably ask the eyewear to also show them weather information, sports statistics, or restaurant menus, according to USA Today.
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Did You Know?
Superimposition was one of the magical effects employed by early filmmakers. Using "mirror shots", with semitransparent mirrors set at 45° angles to the scene, they would superimpose shadowy images of ghosts or scenes from a character's past onto scenes from the present. Superimposing your own ideas on something, such as a historical event, has to be done carefully, since your ideas may change whenever you learn something new about the event.
First Known Use of superimpose
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SUPERIMPOSE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of superimpose for English Language Learners
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: to place or lay (something) over something else
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