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