Definitions from Wiktionary (apposition)

▸ noun:  (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
▸ noun:  (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
▸ noun:  The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
▸ noun:  A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
▸ noun:  (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
▸ noun:  (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
▸ noun:  A public disputation by scholars.
▸ noun:  (UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.




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