APPOSITION

• APPOSITION (noun)
  The noun APPOSITION has 3 senses:

1. a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
2. (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
3. the act of positioning close together (or side by side)

  Familiarity information: APPOSITION used as a noun is uncommon.

• APPOSITION (noun)

Meaning:

A grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Context example:

'Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition

Hypernyms ("apposition" is a kind of...):

limiting; modification; qualifying (the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase)

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)

Meaning:

The act of positioning close together (or side by side)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

juxtaposition; collocation; apposition

Context example:

it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors

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)