juxtaposition

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.

   “It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.

   “Example: mother father instead of mother and father”

3. (countable, uncountable)The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.

   “Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a#92;timesb collapses to ab.”

   “A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.”

4. (countable, uncountable)The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.

   “There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.”

5. (countable, uncountable)The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.

   “The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.”

   “Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.”

6. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.

   “Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.”

verb

1. To place in juxtaposition.