Noun: apposition ,a-pu'zi-shun
- The act of positioning close together (or side by side)
"it is the result of the apposition of contrasting colours";
- juxtaposition, collocation
- A grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
"‘Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer’ is an example of apposition";
- appositive
- (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
"The apposition of cellulose layers strengthened the plant cell walls"
Derived forms: appositions
Type of: development, emplacement, growing, growth, location, maturation, modification, ontogenesis, ontogeny, placement, position, positioning
Encyclopedia: Apposition