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APPOSITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of positioning close together (or side by side)
Example:
it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
Synonyms:
apposition; collocation; juxtaposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("apposition" is a kind of...):
emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apposition"):
tessellation (the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern)
Derivation:
appose (place side by side or in close proximity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("apposition" is a kind 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)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
Example:
'Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("apposition" is a kind of...):
limiting; modification; qualifying (the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase)
Derivation:
appositional (relating to or being in apposition)
