meaning of apposition
1. The act of adding; application; accretion.
2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
3. The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
4. the act of positioning close together or side by side; "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting
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