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apposition

English

  1. 🔊 (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
  2. 🔊 a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
    “`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition”
  3. 🔊 the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
    “it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 aposición apposition

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