| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| apposition |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ap·po·si·tion |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   p  -z sh n |
| NOUN: | 1. Grammar a. A construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence; for example, Copley and the painter in The painter Copley was born in Boston. b. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases. 2. A placing side by side or next to each other. 3. Biology The growth of successive layers of a cell wall. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English apposicioun, from Latin appositi , appositin-, from appositus, past participle of appnere, to put near. See apposite. | | OTHER FORMS: | appo·sition·al —ADJECTIVE
appo·sition·al·ly —ADVERB
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