a construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic function in the sentence
For example, in the phrase my friend Alice the name Alice is in apposition to my friend.
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition
the juxtaposition of two nouns, the second of which clarifies the first "The man, a leather-clad hoodlum, bolted from the scene when the police showed up "
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"
a grammatical construction in which two typically adjacent nouns referring to the same person or thing stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence For example, in "the rally of the opposition Labor Party", "Labor Party" is in apposition with "opposition"