APPOSITION
Dictionary entry overview: What does apposition mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
• 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)
