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)
   - juxtaposition, collocation

Derived forms: appositions

See also: appose, appositional

Type of: development, emplacement, growing, growth, limiting, locating, location, maturation, modification, ontogenesis, ontogeny, placement, position, positioning, qualifying

Encyclopedia: Apposition

• compacter
• compactify
• compaction
• compactly
• compactness
• compactor
• compadre
• companion
• companionability
• companionable
• companionableness
• companionably
• companionate
• companionship
• companionway
• company
• company man
• company name
• company operator
• company union
• comparability
• comparable
• comparable to
• comparable with
• comparably