overstrike in English
noun
1
the superimposing of one printed character or one coin design on another.
Its primary purpose is to switch from insert mode to overstrike mode during text editing, and I never use overstrike mode.
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1. In typewriters, a typist would, for example, type a lowercase letter A with acute accent (á) by typing a lowercase letter A, backspace and then the acute accent key (also known as overstrike ). This is the basis for such spacing modifiers in computer character sets such as the ASCII caret (^, for the circumflex accent).