Sentence examples for being superimposed on from inspiring English sources

About 1267 English philosopher Roger Bacon wrote in Perspectiva, "[We] may number the smallest particles of dust and sand by reason of the greatness of the angle under which we may see them," and in 1538 Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro wrote in Homocentrica, "If anyone should look through two spectacle glasses, one being superimposed on the other, he will see everything much larger".

As can be seen, the concentration curve can be considered to be the superimposed curve resulting from each successive reflection (from the surface layer) being superimposed on the original curve.

"There may be a natural part of it, but there's something else being superimposed on top of it," Dr. Thompson said.

He favoured organic form, which takes shape to meet the needs of a particular expression, rather than abstract form, which he defined as being superimposed on a given content.

So you have this developing urban structure, complex developing, bureaucratic urban structure that's now being superimposed on the agricultural life, and that leads to all sorts of class distinctions and class divisions between officials, bureaucrats, merchants, large-scale landowners who are prospering perhaps, smaller farmers and shepherds who are living at more of a subsistence level.

Robert C. Orr, the United Nations assistant secretary general for policy and planning, said the "wild roller coaster ride" through the night was partly due to the authority of more than 120 heads of state being superimposed on a process normally driven by ministers and diplomatic protocols.

Over the whole year, these processes are superimposed on one another to produce the resultant till.

This extrinsic aging is superimposed on intrinsic one, and is also referred as "photo-aging".

Their new life is superimposed on their old one.

The past is superimposed on the present.

The Israeli flag is superimposed on the American flag.