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apposition
[ ap-uh-zish-uhn ]
noun
- the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition.
- the addition or application of one thing to another thing.
- Grammar. a syntactic relation between expressions, usually consecutive, that have the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence, the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the phrase our first president is in apposition with Washington.
- Biology. growth of a cell wall by the deposition of new particles in layers on the wall. Compare intussusception ( def 2 ).
apposition
/ 藢忙辫蓹藞锄瑟蕛蓹苍 /
noun
- a putting into juxtaposition
- a grammatical construction in which a word, esp a noun phrase, is placed after another to modify its meaning
- biology growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposition of successive layers of material Compare intussusception
Derived Forms
- 藢补辫辫辞藞蝉颈迟颈辞苍补濒, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 补辫顎卲辞路蝉颈顎僼颈辞苍路补濒 adjective
- 补辫顎卲辞路蝉颈顎僼颈辞苍路补濒路ly adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of apposition1
Example Sentences
They鈥檝e cohered through wet-on-wet mixing into a strange, alienating hybrid color, made even stranger by the apposition of equally thick background strokes of soiled coral.
But other elements were recognizable, like the flat vowels and the plaid shirts and the helpful practicality, like the lonesomeness of the undifferentiated plains, like the apposition of wilderness and chain stores.
The united probe glows wherever two organelles come into close apposition.
In her analysis of the causes of repression in her society, Ms. Alexeyeva consistently disputed any neat apposition of Russian despots and Western democratic leaders.
With its unbalanced nouns in apposition, the film鈥檚 title hints at the absurdity of the way human beings think.
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