apposition [ ,æpəu'ziʃən ]

• n.
  • a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows

    "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"

  • (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
  • the act of positioning close together (or side by side)

    同义词： juxtaposition collocation

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