Apposition

[æpə'zɪʃ(ə)n] or ['æpə'zɪʃən]

Definition

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

(noun.) a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; '`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition'.

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Definition

(n.) The act of adding; application; accretion.

(n.) The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

(n.) 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.

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Definition

n. the act of adding: state of being placed together or against: juxtaposition: (gram.) the annexing of one noun to another in the same case or relation in order to explain or limit the first: also used of a public disputation by scholars and still the word in use for the 'Speech Day' at St Paul's School London.—adjs. Apposi′tional; Appos′itive placed in apposition.

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