But it implies also that qualities can be superposed on each other like magnitudes.
Thus the problem of knowledge is complicated, and possibly made insoluble, by the idea that order fills a void and that its actual presence is superposed on its virtual absence.
These variations, superposed upon one another, may in time constitute a nature wholly unlike its first original.
Like aristocracy, it would display a great diversity of institutions and superposed classes, a stimulating variety in ways of living; it would be favourable to art and science and to noble idiosyncrasies.
The lines are logically superposed upon the natural features; not as if they had grown there, but as if they had been placed there for topographic cause.
The network is not only a mesh de facto, then, but one de jure, which, subsequent to the fashioning of the seas and continents and what these have now become, has been superposed upon them.
Such true patches consist of a groundwork of shading, upon which, indeed, are superposed the usual network of lines and spots.
In a direction with the radii of these dials there are four superposed levers, each of which is actuated by one of the electros.
The wire of the induced current is superposed upon the first and presents a large number of spirals.
Tamman has demonstrated that amorphous solids may very well, in fact, be regarded as superposed liquids endowed with very great viscosity.
In the apple a dilatation of the flower-stalk below the ordinary fruit may occasionally be observed, thus giving rise to the appearance of two fruits superposed and separated one from the other by a constriction.
The fundamental proposition, that two magnitudes which can be superposedin any one position can be superposed in any other, still holds.
On the middle of the sleeves were a number of superposed T's made of ribbon bands and with delicate ornamentations round them, such as little squares with radiating threads, a frieze going all round the arm, and parallel lines.
The bases of these columns bore conventionalized vases with sunflowers and leaf ornamentations, while the capitols were in three superposed fluted tiers, the uppermost being the largest in diameter.
We have seen that corresponding points in an involution form two projective point-rows superposed on the same straight line.
It is thus possible for two projective point-rows, superposed upon the same line, to have two self-corresponding points.
We have thus shown that two projective point-rows, superposed one on the other, may have two points, one point, or no point at all corresponding to themselves.
We have seen (§ 37) that two projective point-rows may be superposed upon the same straight line.
We get thus two projective point-rows superposed on the same line u, and a moment’s reflection serves to show that the point N of intersection u and u’ corresponds to itself in the two point-rows.
Thus, the tangents to a conic are in involution when they are corresponding rays of two protective pencils of the second order superposed upon the same conic, and when they correspond to each other doubly.
Two projective point-rows superposed on the same straight line are, however, not necessarily in involution, as a simple example will show.
For if we cut across them by a line, we obtain two projective point-rows superposed on the same straight line, which may have no more than two self-corresponding points.
We may also give an illustration of a case where two superposed projective point-rows have no self-corresponding points at all.
The spaces which describe these circles are superposed on what looks like a red enamel retaining at this moment all or nearly all its pristine brightness of twelve hundred years ago.
After about another century a round or conical iron helmet (capacete), fitted with cheek-pieces, was superposed on the almofar and fastened round the chin with straps.
It is superposed upon all periodic changes, and, though it seems smaller than they, it is more inexorable.
The medieval battlemented walls superposed on it are picturesque.
The upper part of the figure is frequently found separated from the lower; sometimes this is plainly a trident superposed upon a disk-shaped nucleus.
Among the northern Buddhists it personifies the heaven of pure flame superposed upon the heaven of the sun.
The fine saussurite which we saw in the Upper Orinoco in the hands of the Indians, seems to indicate the existence of a soil of euphotide, superposed on gneiss-granite, or amphibolic slate, in the eastern part of the Sierra Parime.
The diversity of the superposed table-lands and climates varies the agricultural productions as well as the character of the inhabitants.
It would seem as if the heat which these springs acquire in the interior of the globe diminishes in proportion as they pass from primitive to secondary superposed rocks.
Bonpland picked up in the savannahs of Barcelona (near Curataquiche), belong to the sandstone of the Llanos of Calabozo or to a stratum superposed on that sandstone?
I observed in Mexico a very singular agglomerated felspar formation superposed upon (perhaps inclosed in) red sandstone, near Guanaxuato.
To examine these vestiges in strata superposed as by steps, one above another, is to study the Fauna of different ages and to compare them together.
It lies north and south, the southern end being supported by three small superposed slabs.
At Lost Hill, however, there was seldom more than a single layer, while at the Devil's Elbow a regular wall was built, seven superposed slabs being observed at one point with a certainty that others had been placed above these.
Our engraving represents a stereopticon seance, and the draughtsman has well rendered the effect of the two luminous and differently colored fascicles superposed upon the screen.
If we take two transparent stereoscopic images and place each of them in a projection lantern, in such a way that they can be superposed upon the screen, we shall obtain thereby a single image.
The reciprocating table bearing the engraved plate, and the superposed pressure roller turned by hand through its long radial arms, is an ancient and familiar form of press which has been in use for many years.
The reproductions are made by superposed printing of the three blocks, yellow being printed first, then red, and finally blue (Plate 12).
Then produce upwards on either side, after the width of the superposed squares, right lines to meet the sides of the oblique set square.
Then set the second limb to the right of this, and cut it off below by an oblique line, drawn from the lowest angle upwards to the right, as far as the middle point of the lowest of the three superposed squares.
In other words, the electric field produced by the positive electrons and that which the negative electrons produce might be superposed and yet remain distinct.
However that may be, the pressure, and consequently the temperature, at the center of the gaseous sphere would be by so much the greater as the sphere was larger since the pressure increases by the weight of all the superposed layers.
It is at the latter that the two superposed lines are connected by the circular inclined plane.
If we look at these folds from below in an oblique direction, we shall see them superposed upon one another in such a way as to represent figures that recall a human profile.
The walls of this fine apartment are broken up into arcades of interlacing tracery, each tier of semicircular arches being superposed upon the one below, giving all the effect of an arcade of pointed arches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superposed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
