Meaning of APPOSITION
| Pronunciation: | | `apu'zishun
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- [n] the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
- [n] (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
- [n] 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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APPOSITION is a 10 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | collocation, juxtaposition |
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| | See Also: | | development, emplacement, growing, growth, limiting, locating, location, maturation, modification, ontogenesis, ontogeny, placement, position, positioning, qualifying, tessellation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ap`po*si"tion\, n. [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.) 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.
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