01 n. The act of adding; application; accretion.
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1.
The act of adding; application; accretion.“It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter.” — Arbuthnot.
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The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
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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.(Gram.)
Phrases & compounds
Growth by apposition —
a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.