Thesaurus: apposition

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1. n. The act of adding; application; accretion.
2. n. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
3. n. The word/state">state of two word/nouns">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.
4. n. a word/grammatical">grammatical word/relation">relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
5. n. (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
6. n. the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
7. 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.
8. The word/state">state of two word/nouns">nouns or pronouns, put in the same case,without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, theorator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic ofnon vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood istransformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganizedsubstance.
9. n:100 n. a word/grammatical">grammatical word/relation">relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows n. (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material