APPOSITION


Meaning of APPOSITION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌa-pə-ˈzi-shən ]

noun

Date: 15th century

1.

a. : 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 the poet and Burns in “a biography of the poet Burns”)

b. : the relation of one of such a pair of nouns or noun equivalents to the other

2.

a. : an act or instance of apposing ; specifically : the deposition of successive layers upon those already present (as in cell walls)

b. : the state of being apposed

• ap·po·si·tion·al -ˈzish-nəl, -ˈzi-shə-n ə l adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.