APPOSITION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
   Synonym(s)
   • collocation (what does collocation mean?)
   • juxtaposition (what does juxtaposition mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
   Hypernyms(s) apposition is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • placement (what does placement mean?)
   • location (what does location mean?)
   • locating (what does locating mean?)
   • position (what does position mean?)
   • positioning (what does positioning mean?)
   • emplacement (what does emplacement mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • tessellation (what does tessellation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • collocate (what does collocate mean?)
   • lump (what does lump mean?)
   • chunk (what does chunk mean?)
   • appose (what does appose mean?)
   • juxtapose (what does juxtapose mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
   Hypernyms(s) apposition is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • growth (what does growth mean?)
   • growing (what does growing mean?)
   • maturation (what does maturation mean?)
   • development (what does development mean?)
   • ontogeny (what does ontogeny mean?)
   • ontogenesis (what does ontogenesis mean?)
3. Meaning
   • a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
   Usage Example(s)
   • `Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer” is an example of apposition
   Hypernyms(s) apposition is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • modification (what does modification mean?)
   • qualifying (what does qualifying mean?)
   • limiting (what does limiting mean?)