Type and usage of apposition from BoostVocab

apposition

/,æpə'zɪʃən/

noun
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
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Similar:

collocation juxtaposition

type of:
position locating placement emplacement positioning location
noun
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
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"`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"

type of:
qualifying limiting modification
noun
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
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type of:
maturation development growing growth ontogenesis ontogeny

Examples of apposition

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