The word "apposition" has several senses including the act of adding or accretion and also the putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side. Growth by apposition is a mode of growth that is characteristic of many tissues in the body by which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorga [..]

Apposition is when a noun or noun phrase is placed next to another that explains it: RS Thomas, the poet, died a few years ago. Here, RS Thomas and the poet are in apposition, the second phrase explai [..]

"application" (of one thing to another), mid-15c., originally in grammatical sense, from Latin appositionem (nominative appositio), noun of action from past participle stem of apponere " [..]

n. The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.

When one noun group immediately follows another with the same reference, they are said to be in apposition, for example 'our neighbour, Mr Grasso ...', 'Canberra, the capital o [..]

(n) a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows(n) (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material(n) the act of positioning c [..]

(apposisjon): expansion of a noun phrase, whereby a second noun phrase is added which has the same reference as the first, but a different form. E.g. Tony Blair, the British prime minister; my younges [..]

the juxtaposition of two nouns, the second of which clarifies the first. "The man, a leather-clad hoodlum, bolted from the scene when the police showed up."

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. The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator [..]

(grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence. The relationship between s [..]

(grammar) apposition