overprint

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The addition of new text on a previously printed stamp, usually to add a surcharge or change the face value.
2. isim The set of petrological, structural, and/or mineralogical characteristics superimposed onto rock by the action of geological processes over deep time, by analogy with the original sense of the word.

   “This is the first report from the Alps of eclogite-facies rocks of supposed Alpine age showing a granulite-facies metamorphic overprint, which is, in contrast, well documented in the Variscan belt.”

3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil To add an overprint to (a stamp).
5. fiil To print too many copies of.

   “The unpopular comic book was overprinted, leaving many retailers with dozens of unsaleable copies.”

6. fiil To overlap different colours to avoid gaps.
7. fiil 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.”