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apposition

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: apposition

1
 n
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
2
 n
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
3
 n
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: apposition
1

n the act of positioning close together (or side by side)

Synonyms:
collocation, juxtaposition
Types:
tessellation
the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern
Type of:
emplacement, locating, location, placement, position, positioning
the act of putting something in a certain place
2

n a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows

“`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition”
Type of:
limiting, modification, qualifying
the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
3

n (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material

Type of:
development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
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