ALL meanings of apposition
ap·po·si·tion
A a - uncountable noun apposition If two noun groups referring to the same person or thing are in apposition, one is placed immediately after the other, with no conjunction joining them, as in 'Her father, Nigel, left home three months ago.' 3
- noun apposition a putting into juxtaposition 3
- noun apposition a grammatical construction in which a word, esp a noun phrase, is placed after another to modify its meaning 3
- noun apposition growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposition of successive layers of material 3
- noun apposition an apposing or being apposed; putting side by side 3
- noun apposition the position resulting from this 3
- noun apposition the placing of a word or expression beside another so that the second explains and has the same grammatical construction as the first 3
- noun apposition the relationship between such terms (Ex.: my cousin is in apposition with Mary in “Mary, my cousin, is here”) 3
- noun apposition the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition. 1
- noun apposition the addition or application of one thing to another thing. 1
- noun apposition Grammar. a syntactic relation between expressions, usually consecutive, that have the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence, the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the phrase our first president is in apposition with Washington. 1
- noun apposition Biology. growth of a cell wall by the deposition of new particles in layers on the wall. Compare intussusception (def 2). 1
- noun apposition (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
- noun apposition The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases. 0
- noun apposition The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other. 0
- noun apposition A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things. 0
- noun apposition In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall. 0
- noun apposition (rhetoric) Appositio. 0