About The Word Juxtaposition
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Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Juxtaposition?
[n] the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
[n] a side-by-side position Synonyms | Synonyms for Juxtaposition: apposition | collocation Related Terms | Find terms related to Juxtaposition: abutment | abuttal | accession | addition | adjacency | adjoiningness | adjunct | adjunction | affixation | agglutination | annexation | apposition | appulse | assemblage | assembly | attachment | augmentation | call-up | canvass | census | collection | colligation | collocation | combination | comparison | concourse | concurrence | confluence | conflux | congregation | conjugation | conjunction | connection | conterminousness | contiguity | convergence | corralling | coterminousness | data-gathering | gathering | increase | ingathering | inventory | joining | junction | mobilization | muster | perigee | perihelion | prefixation | reinforcement | rodeo | roundup | suffixation | superaddition | superfetation | superjunction | superposition | supplementation | survey | syzygy | union | uniting See Also | emplacement | locating | location | place | placement | position | position | positioning | tessellation Juxtaposition In Webster's Dictionary \Jux`ta*po*si"tion\, n. [L. juxta near + positio
position: cf. F. juxtaposition. See {Just}, v. i., and
{Position}.]
A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side
by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.
Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition.
--Glanvill.
Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity.
--Hare.
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