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Definition of Apposition

1. Noun. A grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows. "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"

2. Noun. (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material.

3. Noun. The act of positioning close together (or side by side). "It is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"

Definition of Apposition

1. n. The act of adding; application; accretion.

Definition of Apposition

1. Noun. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence. ¹

2. Noun. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases. ¹

3. Noun. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other. ¹

4. Noun. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things. ¹

5. Noun. In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall. ¹

6. Noun. (rhetoric) Appositio ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apposition

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Apposition

1. 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. 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 characterises the first. Growth by apposition, 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 unorganised substance. Origin: L. Appositio, fr. Apponere: cf. F. Apposition. See Apposite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apposition

apportions apports apposable appose apposed apposer apposers apposes apposing apposite

appositely appositeness appositenesses apposites appositio apposition (current term) apposition suture appositional appositional growth appositionally

appositions appositive appositively appositives appr apprais'd appraisable appraisal cost appraisals

Literary usage of Apposition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1859)
"apposition. 134 When to a substantive or personal pronoun there is added a substantive (without a preposition) explaining or describing it, the latter is ..."

2. An Analytical and Practical Grammar of the English Language: Revised by Peter Bullions (1867)
"The word annexed is said to be in apposition with the other, and is added to express ... A substantive predicated of another is not in apposition with it, ..."

3. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown (1861)
"apposition. A Noun or a personal Pronoun used to explain a preceding noun ... apposition is the using of different words or appellations, to designate the ..."

4. The Institutes of English Grammar Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1873)
"apposition. , A Noun or a personal Pronoun used to explain a preceding noun ... apposition is the using of different words or appellations, to designate the ..."

5. A Practical German Grammar by Calvin Thomas (1905)
"apposition 270. Immediate apposition. An appositive agrees in case with its antecedent; ... A noun in apposition with a sentence is put in the nominative; ..."

6. A Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1849)
"apposition. A substantive following and more nearly defining another substan- 504 tive with which it agrees in number and case, stands in apposition to it. ..."

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