apposition
Noun
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Noun
apposition
- (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them 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
- A public disputation by scholars.
- (UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
- (grammar) parathesis
- French: apposition
- German: Apposition, Beisatz
- Portuguese: aposição
- Russian: приложе́ние
- Spanish: aposición
- Portuguese: aposição
- Portuguese: aposição
- German: Apposition
- Portuguese: aposição
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