- apposition - a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"
--1 is a kind of modification, qualifying, limiting
- apposition - (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
--2 is a kind of growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
- juxtaposition, apposition, collocation - the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
--3 is a kind of placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement
--3 has particulars: tessellationDerived form: verb appose1 - apposition - (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material