Apposition — meaning in English
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English meaning
- apposition noun 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.
Senses
Apposition is used for these senses in English:
- 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.
- apposition (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
apposition — full definition
- noun 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.
- noun The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- noun The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
- noun A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.