| n. | 1. | The act of adding; application; accretion. | |||
| 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.
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| Noun | 1. | apposition - a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition" |
| 2. | apposition - (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material | |
| 3. | apposition - the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" Synonyms: juxtaposition, collocation |