Definition of Apposetion
Ap`po*si"tion (&?;), n. [L. appositio,
fr. apponere: cf. F. apposition. See Apposite.]
1. The act of adding; application;
accretion.
It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter.
Arbuthnot.
2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side
by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
3. (Gram.) 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.
Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of
growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter
from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid
unorganized substance.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- in grammar, a construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic function in the sentence
- the relationship between such nouns or noun phrases
- a placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things
- in Biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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