Usually means: Placement of nouns side by side.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. apposition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apposition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apposition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apposition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apposition, apposition: Wordnik
  7. apposition: Wiktionary
  8. apposition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. apposition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. apposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. apposition: Dictionary.com
  12. Apposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Apposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. apposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. apposition: Rhymezone
  16. Apposition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. apposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. apposition: MyWord.info
  19. apposition: Free Dictionary
  20. apposition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. apposition: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. apposition: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Apposition: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apposition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apposition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Apposition: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. apposition: Sound Alike Words
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  5. apposition: Medical dictionary
  6. Apposition: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See appositional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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