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Webster 1913 Edition
Apposition
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Apposition
APPOSI'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of adding to; addition; a setting to.By the opposition of new matter.
2.
In Grammar, the placing of two nouns, in the same case, without a connecting word between them, as, I admire Cicero, the orator. In this case, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.Definition 2024
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English
Noun
apposition (plural appositions)
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In the phrase "my friend Alice" the name "Alice" is in apposition to "my friend". |
- (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.
- The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- (rhetoric) Appositio
Translations
grammatical construction
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relationship in such construction
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biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall
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rhetoric: appositio — see appositio