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apposition
noun(ap-po-si-tion)
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
apposition
noun(ap-po-si-tion)
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
Examples:
`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition.
apposition
noun(ap-po-si-tion)
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material

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