APPOSITION

juxtaposition, apposition, collocation

(noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side); “it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors”

apposition

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

apposition

(noun) a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; “‘Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer’ is an example of apposition”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

apposition (countable and uncountable, plural appositions)

(grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.

The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.

The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.

A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.

In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.

(rhetoric) Appositio

A public disputation by scholars.

(UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.

Synonyms

• (grammar): parathesis

Source: Wiktionary

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Ap`po*si"tion, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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