apposition

apposition has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. The act of adding; application; accretion.
• n.. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
• n.. The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
• n.. the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
• n.. (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
• n.. a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"