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juxtaposition|ˌdʒʌkstəpəʊˈzɪʃən|
[a. F. juxtaposition (1690 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. L. juxtā + F. position.]
a. The action of placing two or more things close together or side by side, or one thing with or beside another; the condition of being so placed.
1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. vii. 37 Parts that are united by a meer juxta-position. 1680Boyle Scept. Chem. ii. 140 There is but a Juxta-position of separable Corpuscles. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. ii. §2 When the Mind cannot so bring its Ideas together, as by their..Juxta-position or Application one to another, to perceive their Agreement or Disagreement. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 29 Plants..receive their Nourishment by Intus-susception, and..grow not like Stones, by Juxta-Position. 1840F. Trollope Widow Married xxv, The ineffable two hours of their juxta-position at the dinner-table. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. App. 597 The juxtaposition of the words which follow is remarkable.
†b. spec. in Cryst. Contactual union between twinned crystals; juxtaposition twin, a composite crystal of two (or more) crystals joined along a plane; a contact twin. Obs.
1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 366/1 In aragonite the crystals are partly interpenetrating, and partly merely in juxtaposition. 1890G. H. Williams Elem. Crystallogr. ix. 185 Two individual crystals in twinning position are usually, though by no means always, united in a plane, which may or may not coincide with the twinning plane. Twins of this sort are called contact or juxtaposition twins. 1911A. E. H. Tutton Crystallogr. xxvi. 420 In the case of ‘juxtaposition twins’ the plane of union, whether the twin plane or not, is known as the ‘plane of composition’. 1917F. M. Jaeger Lect. Princ. Symmetry vii. 171 The classification of twins into such as are produced by juxtaposition or by penetration, may have certain advantages from a practical standpoint.
Hence juxtapoˈsitional a., relating to or characterized by juxtaposition.
1863Smith's Dict. Bible III. 539/2 Our own language, though classed as inflectional..is in many respects as isolating and juxtapositional as any language of that class. 1868Max Müller Rede Lect. ii. in Sel. Ess. (1881) I. 84 The three stages in the history of the Aryan languages, the juxtapositional, the combinatory and the inflectional. |