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"Apposition" Definition

noun

A placing side by side or next to each other.
Biology The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
Grammar A construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence; for example, Copley and the painter in The painter Copley was born in Boston.
Grammar The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
A grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence (as and in “a biography of the poet Burns”).

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