palimpsest

IPA: pˈæɫɪmpsʌst

A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
(archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
(astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
(geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
(computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.
(cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.

To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.

Examples of "palimpsest" in Sentences

Did he have access to the palimpsest
It is a palimpsest, the upper text is in Arabic.
The manuscript containing the text is a palimpsest.
So rich a palimpsest is French civilization, so varied is
The fragmentary state of the palimpsest leaves much in doubt.
The manuscript containing the 'Skeireins' text is a palimpsest.
The fragmentary state of the palimpsest leaves is much in doubt.
The most famous palimpsest is probably the Archimedes Palimpsest.
According to Gregory, it is an important palimpsest of the New Testament.
The palimpsest of such channels allows the mining sequence to be inferred.
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a palimpsest on parchment in the form of a codex.
The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes' works.
The graphical front-end for DeviceKit is called palimpsest and provides several nice management capabilities.
An obliterated manuscript written over again is called a palimpsest, and the man who can restore and read it a paleographist.
So an architectural palimpsest is the ghostly remains of other buildings or parts of buildings that are still apparent on existing buildings.
The description of this granite palimpsest is best given in Mr. Petrie's own words, as written in his weekly report at the time of the discovery:
It acts as a kind of palimpsest over which the literary writer might inscribe his/her own variations on "criminal" behavior and its sources in unruly human impulses.