apposition

noun

1. 1

   (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.

2. 2

   The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.

3. 3

   The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.

4. 4

   A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.

5. 5

   In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.

6. 6

   Appositio

7. 7

   A public disputation by scholars.

8. 8

   A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.