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Apposition

Apposition Meaning & Definition
Apposition Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Apposition?

[n] the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
[n] (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
[n] a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Apposition: collocation | juxtaposition

Related Terms | Find terms related to Apposition:

See Also | development | emplacement | growing | growth | limiting | locating | location | maturation | modification | ontogenesis | ontogeny | placement | position | positioning | qualifying | tessellation

Apposition In Webster's Dictionary

\Ap`po*si"tion\, n. [L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf. F. apposition. See {Apposite}.] 1. The act of adding; application; accretion. It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. --Arbuthnot. 2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed. 3. (Gram.) 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} (Physiol.), 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.

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