Noun
The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA circular polarized dipole is described as a superposition of two linear dipoles. Source: Internet
According to the usual rules of quantum mechanics, the actual state of the electron may be any superposition of these states. Source: Internet
A field operator can act to produce a one-particle state from the vacuum, which means that the field operator produces a superposition of Wigner particle states. Source: Internet
Although this fact may seem to indicate that qubits can hold exponentially more information than their classical counterparts, care must be taken not to overlook the fact that the qubits are only in a probabilistic superposition of all of their states. Source: Internet
At any particular wavelength, partially polarized light can be statistically described as the superposition of a completely unpolarized component, and a completely polarized one. Source: Internet
A superposition of eukaryotic gene promoters from four different species shows that promoters of genes reflect the selection pressure of a species and less the phylogenetic relations between distant species. Source: Internet