apposition
- Noun. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- Noun. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- Noun. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
- Noun. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- Noun. In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- Noun. (rhetoric) Appositio.
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