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Definition of Apposed
1. a. Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.
Definition of Apposed
1. Verb. (past of appose) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apposed
1. appose [v] - See also: appose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apposed
Literary usage of Apposed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introductory Modern Geometry of Point, Ray, and Circle by William Benjamin Smith (1892)
"When two areas, or surfaces, are apposed, the beginning of the second fitting on
the end of the first, the two congruent part-borders herewith ceasing to be ..."
2. Detroit Lancet edited by Leartus Connor, Henry Alexander Cleland (1878)
"•A. apposed. If at the time of contact of the two fluids a scarlet or purple
color is produced, it proves that the acids of the bile are present, ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"With two-points-apposed, in 35 trials, G reports line (12), short straight line (5)
... The separations used in the work were 15 mm. and two-points-apposed. ..."
4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"The open cube, consisting of four squares apposed along pairs of edges, or 16 bars.
... A solid equilateral triangle, consisting of three squares apposed by ..."
5. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The image formed in such an eye is termed by Exner an apposed -image; because it
is formed by apposed points of light, falling side by side and not ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1886)
"... of the infra-dental foramen ; its course is apposed to the facial artery ...
ramus is apposed to the submental artery, supplies the distal half of the ..."
7. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"... into the cleft between the labia as two apposed longitudinal lips." He proceeds
to show from actual preparations that the male also possesses a hymen. ..."
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