apposition : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: apposition	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
apposition n a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition" (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" Synonym(s): juxtaposition, apposition, collocation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Apposition \Ap`posi"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.