apposition
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See also Apposition
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Noun
apposition (plural appositions)
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In the phrase "my friend Alice" the name "Alice" is in apposition to "my friend". |
- (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 such nouns or noun phrases.
- The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- (rhetoric) Appositio
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grammatical construction
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relationship in such construction
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quality of being side by side
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placing of two things side by side
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biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall
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rhetoric: appositio — see appositio
[edit] Finnish
[edit] Noun
apposition
- Genitive singular form of appositio.
