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noun

Apposition n.

The act of adding; application; accretion. "It grows... by the apposition of new matter."

The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Apposition'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apposition" Quotes from Famous Books

... first discover the sad effects of death. But their iterated clamations to excitate their dying or dead friends, or revoke them unto life again, was a vanity of affection; as not presumably ignorant of the critical tests of death, by apposition of feathers, glasses, and reflection of figures, which dead eyes represent not: which, however not strictly verifiable in fresh and warm cadavers, could hardly elude the test, in corpses of four ...

— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne

... white and colorless, as long as it does not come in contact with matter. When in apposition with any body, it suffers variable degrees of decomposition, resulting in color, as by reflection, dispersion, refraction, ...

— American Handbook of the Daguerrotype • Samuel D. Humphrey

Words linked to "Apposition" : development, locating, biological science, emplacement, qualifying, modification, appose, limiting, growing, ontogeny, maturation, location, positioning