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superposition

NOUN
  1. (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide
  2. the placement of one thing on top of another
  3. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
  4. (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another

How To Use superposition In A Sentence

  • This "second observer" situation captures the core conceptual difficulty of the interpretation of quantum mechanics: reconciling the possibility of quantum superposition with the fact that the observed world is characterized by uniquely determined events q, q², q³, ¦. Relational Quantum Mechanics
  • Tiny particles such as photons or atoms can readily be put into a quantum superposition existing in two different states or places at once.
  • If a cat's life was directly tied to a quantum effect in superposition, would the cat be both alive and dead at the same time? Damn Duck
  • And one of the crazy consequences of quantum theory is that we can put an ion into something called a superposition state. The Omega Theory
  • One can consider the far-field as an effectively uncontrollable environment that decoheres the particle (and the near-field), so that superpositions of different charges are indeed never observed. ...anything but love...
  • Sengor, in particular, advocated superposition of a regime associated with tectonic escape.
  • The real dike pattern can be approximately duplicated theoretically by the superposition of two very simple stress fields.
  • There we find the superposition of essay and fiction in Mosca's work: responding to the need to offer ourselves our own story, of grabbing hold of our subalternity as prime material, through which we can get closer to our truth - our being-in-itself, Sartre would say -, attainable only through "liberational" writing and reading. Venepoetics
  • In the case of a classical system for which a superposition principle holds, for instance a vibrating membrane, when one superposes a state with itself the result is a different state, with a different magnitude of the oscillations. A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
  • A simple way to understand this is that the simple meaning of the word superposition is the placement of one thing on top of another. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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