apposition
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1. the act of positioning close together (or side by side) (noun.act)
| hyponym | : | tessellation, |
| definition | : | the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern (noun.act) |
2. (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, |
| definition | : | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level (noun.process) |
3. a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows (noun.linkdef)
| hypernym | : | limiting, modification, qualifying, |
| definition | : | the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase (noun.linkdef) |
4. the act of positioning close together (or side by side) (noun.act)
| derivation | : | chunk, collocate, lump, |
| definition | : | group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side (verb.cognition) |
| derivation | : | appose, |
| definition | : | place side by side or in close proximity (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | juxtapose, |
| definition | : | place side by side (verb.contact) |
5. a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows (noun.linkdef)
6. the act of positioning close together (or side by side) (noun.act)
| derivation | : | chunk, collocate, lump, |
| definition | : | group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side (verb.cognition) |
| derivation | : | appose, |
| definition | : | place side by side or in close proximity (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | juxtapose, |
| definition | : | place side by side (verb.contact) |
7. a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows (noun.linkdef)
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