Superpose

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  • transitive verb. To set or place (one thing) over or above something else.
  • transitive verb. To place (one geometric figure) over another so that all like parts coincide.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To lay or place upon or over, as one kind of rock on another.
  • In botany, to place vertically over some other part: specifically used of arranging one whorl of organs opposite or over another instead of alternately.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
  • transitive verb. To lay (a figure) upon another in such a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To place one thing on top of another
  • verb. To place one geometric figure on top of another in such a way that all common parts coincide
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. place on top of
  • verb. place (one geometric figure) upon another so that their perimeters coincide
  • Word Usage
    "OVERVIEW: The world of the novel is our world with Internet, cell phones, all the usual countries and one addition - a "dual" city Beszel and Ul Qoma that occupy the same physical space in the sense that they intertwine and even superpose in selected areas known as "crosshatches"."
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    lay  place  pose  position  put  
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