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Appositional

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Adjective

1. appositional, appositive

relating to or being in apposition

Example Sentences:
'an appositive noun'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Appositional

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noun
1. 
a putting into juxtaposition
2. 
a grammatical construction in which a word, esp a noun phrase, is placed after another to modify its meaning
3. biology
growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposition of successive layers of material
Compare intussusception (sense 2)

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Appositional

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noun
1. 
an apposing or being apposed; putting side by side
2. 
the position resulting from this
3.  Grammar
a. 
the placing of a word or expression beside another so that the second explains and has the same grammatical construction as the first
b. 
the relationship between such terms (Ex.: my cousin is in apposition with Mary in “Mary, my cousin, is here”)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Appositional

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n.
1. Grammar
a. A construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence; for example, Copley and the painter in The painter Copley was born in Boston.
b. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
2. A placing side by side or next to each other.
3. Biology The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.

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