apposition
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Noun (3)
- a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows“‘Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer’ is an example of apposition”Type of modification, qualifying
- (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of materialType of growth, growing
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)“it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors”Synonyms: juxtapositioncollocationType of placement, locationKinds tessellation
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ap′po·si′tion (…), noun
Origin: L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf. F. apposition. See Apposite.
1. The act of adding; application; accretion.
It grows... by the apposition of new matter.— John Arbuthnot
2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
3. Grammar The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
Growth by apposition Physiology, a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54