Usually means: Overlay one image onto another.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word superimpose:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. superimpose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. superimpose: Merriam-Webster
  3. superimpose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. superimpose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. superimpose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. superimpose: Vocabulary.com
  7. superimpose: Wordnik
  8. superimpose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. superimpose: Wiktionary
  10. superimpose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. superimpose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. superimpose: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. superimpose: Dictionary.com
  14. superimpose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Superimpose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Superimpose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. superimpose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. superimpose: Rhymezone
  19. Superimpose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. superimpose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. superimpose: FreeDictionary.org
  22. superimpose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. superimpose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. superimpose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superimpose: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superimpose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superimpose: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superimpose: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To place an object over another object, usually in such a way that both will be visible.
▸ verb:  (geology) To establish a structural system over, independently of underlying structures.

Similar:
lay over, superpose, superposit, overlay, cover, overpour, overplot, juxtapose, interplace, overpost, more...

Opposite:
underlay, underlie, submerge

Phrases:
superimpose on, more...


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Similar:
lay over, superpose, superposit, overlay, cover, overpour, overplot, juxtapose, interplace, overpost, more...

Opposite:
underlay, underlie, submerge

Phrases:
superimpose on, more...



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