Usually means: Phrase renaming or specifying noun.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word appositive:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Appositive: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appositive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appositive: Medical dictionary

(Note: See appositively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (appositive)

adjective:  of or being in apposition
noun:  (grammar) a word or phrase that is in apposition

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