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apposition |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Apposition \Ap`po*si"tion\, n. [L. appositio, fr apponere: cf F. apposition. See {Apposite}.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: apposition n : 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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