Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun apposition

3 senses of apposition

Sense 1
apposition -- (a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition")
       => modification, qualifying, limiting -- (the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase)

Sense 2
apposition -- ((biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material)
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")

Sense 3
juxtaposition, apposition, collocation -- (the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors")
       => placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement -- (the act of putting something in a certain place)