superphosphate

[Pref. super-, and Eng. Chemistry: A phosphate containing the greatest amount phosphoric acid that the base. superphosphate of lime, s. its II. Technically : 3938 1. Geol .: The position of one aqueous deposit above another. If the strata are horizontal. and have been undisturbed, the lowest is the oldest and the uppermost the newest; if, in any district, they are curved, fractured, or vertical, the test of superposition in that district may be fallacious, and to insure certainty the strata must be studied in one le disturbed. In the case of volcanic rocks, superposition is in most cases a test of relative age. 2. Geom.: The proce by which one magnitude may be conceived to be placed upon another, so as exactly to cover it, or so that every part of each shall exactly coincide with every part of the other. Magnitudes which thus coincide must be equal. sü'-per-prāişe, v . t . [Pref.super-, and English praise (q. v.).] To praise to exce . "To vow and swear, and superpraise my parts." Shakesp: Midsummer Night's Dream , iii. 2. sü-per-pro-pör'-tion, s. [Pref.super-, and Eng. proportion (q. v.).] Exce of proportion. Eng. purgation (q.v.).] More purgation than is IMG:content-0594.png:[blocks in formation] "There happening a super purgation , he declined the repeating of that purge."-Wiseman: Surgery. *sū-për-rě-flěc-tion, *sü -përrě - filěx - iôn (x as ksh), s. [Pref. super , and Eng. reflection (q. v.).] The reflection of an image reflected; reflection over or upon a reflection. "There be three kindes of reflexions of sounds; a re flexion concurrent; a reflexion iterant, which we call eccho; and a super reflexion, or an eccho of an eccho." Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 241.