(v. t.) To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(2) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(3) When one pig was housed in a hut with a small outside yard a nychthemeral rhythm was sometimes superimposed on that imposed by feeding.
(4) Iontophoretic application of quisqualate produced a membrane depolarization with superimposed action potentials, whereas NMDA depolarized the membrane potential and evoked bursts of action potentials.
(5) In the case of H1 horizontal cells, which are known to be GABAergic, the neurotransmitter can also be demonstrated by superimposed immunocytochemistry.
(6) It is proposed that relaxation consists of (1) a generalized reduction to multiple physiological systems (termed the relaxation response by Benson) and (2) a more specific pattern of changes superimposed upon this general reduction, which is elicited by the particular techniques employed.
(7) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.
(8) Tangent-screen studies uncovered neurasthenic spiral fields superimposed on hysterical tubular contractions of both eyes.
(9) The variation of total Hb in the study population was due, as far as could be defined, only to beta-th-t and a superimposed iron deficiency anaemia (IDA).
(10) The former is frequently superimposed on the latter.
(11) Modulation in relation to tremor was superimposed on the bidirectional pattern related to ramps.
(12) Diabetic glomerulosclerosis was present in all 13 patients, but 9 patients had a non-diabetic renal disease superimposed (mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis (n = 5), membranous glomerulonephritis (n = 3) and sarcoidosis (n = 1).
(13) End-diastolic and end-systolic outlines were superimposed after correcting for motion during the cardiac cycle to demonstrate wall motion.
(14) Even in an area nonendemic for hepatitis D, this agent contributed to 20 to 30% of chronic hepatitis B and acute hepatitis superimposed on chronic hepatitis B infection.
(15) In young people the basic histological pattern of clusters, composed of cores of chief cells with surrounding rims of sustentacular cells, has commonly superimposed on it prominence of the dark variant of chief cells.
(16) The severity of pre-existing cardiopulmonary disease largely determines prognosis regardless of the severity of the superimposed acute occlusion.
(17) If the square arrays are superimposed spatially one sees random incoherent motion.
(18) The results show that there is tissue-specificity of glycosylation and that superimposed on this is a significant degree of site-specificity.
(19) Plain CT was capable of demonstrating subtle bony change (cortical reaction and calcification) and medullary tumour extension without interference from other superimposed bones.
(20) Various iterative algorithms for separation of superimposed event sequences were designed, and their efficiency examined through simulation studies.
Superpose
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
(v. t.) To lay (a figure) upon another in such a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other; as, to superpose one plane figure on another.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is demonstrated that this method is very efficient for finding the correct superposing mode in such systems where hydrogen bonds play important roles.
(2) The resulting tertiary structures are extremely Ig-like consisting of two superposed beta-pleated sheets.
(3) On the other hand, counterparts of the C spikes were initial depolarization with a superposed spike burst followed by relatively shorter lasting hyperpolarization which seemed to indicate an enhancement of excitation during the kindling process.
(4) The small figure may easily be explicable on the assumption that the natural onset of spasm is chronologically superposed by chance over immunizations which have to be done within the first year of life.
(5) In the 3 cases, plain chest X-ray showed regular homogeneous radiolucency superposed on cardiac shadow.
(6) Lineweaver-Burk plots for insulin as varied substrate were linear, whereas those for the thiol substrates were nonlinears: the plots for low molecular weight monothiols (GSH and mercaptoethanol) were parabolic; those for low molecular weight dithiols (dithiothreitol, dihydrolipoic acid, and 2,3-dimercaptopropanol) were apparently linear modified by substrate inhibition; and the plots for protein polythiols (reduced insulin A and B chains and reduced ribonuclease) were parabolic with superposed substrate inhibition.
(7) In 15-21-day-old rats subjected to pilocarpine-induced convulsions high voltage fast activity superposed over hippocampal theta-rhythm, progressed into high voltage spiking and spread to cortical records.
(8) delta-activity is no contra-indication, when faster activity is superposed.
(9) The observation was confirmed by a reclassification through nearest-neighbor discriminant analysis of K(1) and K(2) which revealed a correct classification in the pathological range for all factor deficiencies investigated with the exception of factors VIII and IX, the distribution patterns of which were superposed within the limits of distribution.
(10) The accuracy and reproducibility for superposing myocardial images by this digital technique are found to be well within the spatial resolution (FWHM) of the imaging system of the Tl-201 tracer studied.
(11) The main features of this model consist in a subdividing of the whole process in growth parts with a biological meaning, and in a mathematical description of these parts which are mutually independent but superposing one with another.
(12) If the best 203 alpha-carbon atoms are superposed, then an rms deviation of 0.05 nm is obtained (Gros et al.
(13) A consistent interpretation is possible if the linearly superposed displays are assumed to indicate the state of an autonomous optimizer with n linearly independent subfunctionals.
(14) A method is discussed for finding the transformations that mutually superpose an arbitrary number of structures in the least-squares sense given specified atom-to-atom correspondence.
(15) The basic mechanism is connected with the presence of vascular congenital malformation (a. trigemini primitiva persistens), second mechanism is associated with immunologic events (leucopenia-dyshematopoiesis) in which central nervous system is secondarily involved with headaches partly superposed and personality features mildly neurotic, which would represent the third etiologic factor.
(16) The alterations caused by exogenous catecholamines are superposed by alterations caused by emotional stress (injection, tooth extraction).
(17) The markers of the 16-week tracing were superposed on the markers of the 6-week tracing.
(18) The time course of this audiospinal facilitation was superposed over the EMG events during hopping to a simplified musical stimulus.
(19) by superposing in flash on a step of light which was strong enough to saturate the L.R.P.
(20) Incremental flashes superposed on a steady light of increasing intensity evoked responses that had a progressively shorter time-to-peak and faster relaxation, another sign of light adaptation.