"apposition" in the noun sense
1. apposition
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
"`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"
2. apposition
biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
3. juxtaposition, apposition, collocation
the act of positioning close together (or side by side
"it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
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