About The Word Apposition
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Apposition
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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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