juxtaposition
See also: juxta-position
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).
Pronunciation
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Noun
juxtaposition (countable and uncountable, plural juxtapositions)
- The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
- (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
- Example: mother father instead of mother and father
- (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
- Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. collapses to .
- 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.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
- There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
- (art) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
- The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
- (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
- Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.
Hypernyms
- position (structurally)
Related terms
Translations
The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter
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grammar: absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together
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mathematics: absence of operators
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extra emphasis given to a comparison
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arts: contrasting sounds or colours
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rhetoric: placement of ideas
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Verb
juxtaposition (third-person singular simple present juxtapositions, present participle juxtapositioning, simple past and past participle juxtapositioned)
- To place in juxtaposition.
References
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. →ISBN. Music.
French
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Noun
juxtaposition f (plural juxtapositions)
Further reading
- “juxtaposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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