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• apposition — 1. Apposition is the placing of a noun or noun phrase beside another noun and noun phrase, where it shares the same grammatical function, as in A portrait of Benjamin Disraeli, the famous statesman, in which the famous statesman is in apposition… …   Modern English usage

• Apposition — Ap po*si tion, n. [L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf. F. apposition. See {Apposite}.] 1. The act of adding; application; accretion. [1913 Webster] It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 2. The putting of things in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• apposition — noun (U) an arrangement in grammar in which one simple sentence contains two or more noun phrases that are used in the same way and describe the same thing. For example, in the sentence The defendant, a woman of thirty, denies kicking the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• apposition — ► NOUN 1) chiefly technical the positioning of things next to each other. 2) Grammar a relationship in which a word or phrase is placed next to another in order to qualify or explain it (e.g. my friend Sue). DERIVATIVES appositive adjective &… …   English terms dictionary

• apposition — I noun abutment, abuttal, adjacency, admissibility, affiliation, applicability, application, appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, bearing, concern, conjunction, connection, contiguity, felicity, fitness, function, interconnection, interest,… …   Law dictionary

• apposition — (n.) application (of one thing to another), mid 15c., originally in grammatical sense, from L. appositionem (nom. appositio), noun of action from pp. stem of apponere to put to (see APPOSITE (Cf. apposite)). General sense is from 1540s …   Etymology dictionary

• apposition — noun a) 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. b) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases …   Wiktionary

• apposition — noun 1》 chiefly technical the positioning of things next to each other. 2》 Grammar a relationship between two or more words in which the units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent (e.g. my friend Sue). Derivatives appositional… …   English new terms dictionary

• apposition — noun Date: 15th century 1. a. a grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence (as the poet and Burns in “a biography of the poet Bur …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• apposition beach — noun : one of a series of beaches successively formed on the seaward side of an older beach …   Useful english dictionary

• apposition eye — noun : a compound eye that is characteristic of diurnal insects and in which entering light reaches the retina of each ommatidium as a single spot and the image is a composite of all the spots compare superposition eye …   Useful english dictionary