Superposable (Adjective)
Meaning
Coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Two geometric figures are superposable if one can be transformed into the other by a series of translations, rotations, or reflections.
- Identical crystals that have grown under different conditions may be superposable due to the conservation of the crystalline structure.
- Two isomers can be considered the same molecule if their atomic arrangements are superposable in space.
- Two maps with different orientations but containing the same set of roads can be made superposable through proper rotations and translations.
- Molecules are said to have identical conformation if they can be superposable after an alignment procedure to check the deviation of corresponding atoms.