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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
apposition is a noun meaning "a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
“`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition”
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
biology
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
“it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for apposition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.