APPOSITION

• (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side)

  "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"

  synonyms : collocation , juxtaposition

• (noun) (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material

• (noun) a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows

  "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"

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