juxtaposition
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From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“‘near’”) from Latin iungō (“‘to join’”) + French position (“‘position’”) from Latin pōnō (“‘to place’”).
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juxtaposition (plural juxtapositions)
- A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side, often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): Parts that are united by a mere juxtaposition. — Glanvill.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. — Hare.
- (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
- Example: mother father instead of mother and father
- (art, literature) Two or more contrasting sounds, registers, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
- (logic) A logical fallacy on the part of the observer, where two items placed next to each other imply a correlation, when none is actually claimed.
- (mathematics) An absence of multiplication symbols.
- Example: ab instead of a × b
- 2007, Lawrence Moss and Hans-Jörg Tiede, Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics, in: P. Blackburn et al. (eds), Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, p. 1054
- A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.
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placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity or side by side
linguistics: absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together
music: two or more contrasting sounds, registers, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect
logic: logical fallacy on the part of the observer
mathematics: absence of multiplication symbols
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to juxtaposition (third-person singular simple present juxtapositions, present participle juxtapositioning, simple past and past participle juxtapositioned)
- To place in juxtaposition.
[edit] References
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465. Music.
