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Word: apposition (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
  • grammar a explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
  • In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
  • The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
  • The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.

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