[どうかく, doukaku] (n, adj-no, adj-na) the same rank; equality; apposition[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Apposition \Ap`po*si"tion\, n. [L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf.
F. apposition. See {Apposite}.]
1. The act of adding; application; accretion.
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It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter.
--Arbuthnot.
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2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side;
also, the condition of being so placed.
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3. (Gram.) 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.
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{Growth by apposition} (Physiol.), 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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
apposition
n 1: a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase
that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an
example of apposition"
2: (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the
deposit of successive layers of material
3: the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it
is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
[syn: {juxtaposition}, {apposition}, {collocation}]
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