Meaning & use
superimposable
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Able to be placed on top of something else so that the two coincide exactly.
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The two maps were superimposable, revealing how much the coastline had changed.
A molecule is chiral if it is not superimposable on its mirror image.
A note on using this word
Frequently used in chemistry to describe whether a molecule and its mirror image can be aligned exactly, a key test for chirality.
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