overprint
verb/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɹɪnt/
Etymology From over- + print.
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To print over what has already been printed.
- This is the way overprinting works on the ZX Spectrum: two papers or two inks give a paper, one of each gives an ink. This has the interesting property that if you overprint with the same thing twice you get back what you started off with.1982, Steven Vickers, Robin Bradbeer, Sinclair ZX Spectrum: BASIC Programming:
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Philately To add an overprint to (a stamp).
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To print too many copies of.
- The unpopular comic book was overprinted, leaving many retailers with dozens of unsaleable copies.
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Media, Printing, Publishing To overlap different colours to avoid gaps.
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Geography, Geology, Natural sciences To superimpose a new set of petrological, structural, and/or mineralogical characteristics onto rock by the action of geological processes over deep time, by analogy with the original sense of the word.
- Furthermore, these rocks are overprinted by seafloor weathering, which provides a challenge to reconstructing serpentinization processes.2024 August, C. Johan Lissenberg, Andrew M. McCaig, Susan Q. Lang, Peter Blum, Natsue Abe, William J. Brazelton, Rémi Coltat, Jeremy R. Deans, Kristin L. Dickerson, Marguerite Godard, Barbara E. John, Frieder Klein, Rebecca Kuehn, Kuan-Yu Lin, Haiyang Liu, Ethan L. Lopes, Toshio Nozaka, Andrew J. Parsons, Vamdev Pathak, Mark K. Reagan, Jordyn A. Robare, Ivan P. Savov, Esther M. Schwarzenbach, Olivier J. Sissmann, Gordon Southam, Fengping Wang, C. Geoffrey Wheat, Lesley Anderson, Sarah Treadwell, “A long section of serpentinized depleted mantle peridotite”, in Science, volume 385, number 6709, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), →DOI, pages 623–629:
- Dominantly dextral shearing in the Chester zone occurred during post-Acadian plate adjustments around ca. 380 Ma (Ghanem et al. 2016), coeval with initial activity along the Norumbega fault system to the southeast and the shear fabrics overprint rocks on both upper and lower plates of the original thrust.2017 March, Allan Ludman, John T. Hopeck, Henry N. Berry IV, “Provenance and paleogeography of post-Middle Ordovician, pre-Devonian sedimentary basins on the Gander composite terrane, eastern and east-central Maine: implications for Silurian tectonics in the northern Appalachians”, in Atlantic Geology, volume 53, University of New Brunswick Libraries - UNB, →DOI, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2024, pages 063–085:
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- Although deformation overprints volcanic construction, several structural patterns are considered to be inherited from the pre-existing volcanic architecture.2012 September, W.U. Mueller, R. Friedman, R. Daigneault, L. Moore, J. Mortensen, “Timing and characteristics of the Archean subaqueous Blake River Megacaldera Complex, Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada”, in Precambrian Research, volumes 214–215, Elsevier BV, →DOI, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2024, pages 1–27: