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apposition   (TTS Sound)

The noun apposition has 3 senses

• apposition -- (a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition")


• apposition -- ((biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material)


• juxtaposition, apposition, collocation -- (the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors")