apposition

Noun

• the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
  • it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
    

• (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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  juxtaposition , collocation