superposition

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another
noun (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
noun (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide

From French superposition.

Nature did not dream of this superposition. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity. — Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor is it any use to reply, as the opponents of psychophysics sometimes do, that all measurement implies superposition, and that there is no occasion to seek for a numerical relation between intensities, which are not superposable objects. — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson

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