A grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows.

Roget 23: agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony; concord etc. 714; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding.    conformity etc. 82; conformance; uniformity etc. 16; consonance, consentaneousness^†, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.    fitness, aptness etc. adj.; relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey^†; sortance^†; case in point; aptitude, coaptation^†, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation etc. (relation) 9.    adaption^†, adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation, reconcilement; assimilation.    consent etc. (assent) 488; concurrence etc. 178; cooperation etc. 709.    right man in the right place, very thing; quite the thing, just the thing.    ... show more

Roget 522: interpretation, definition; explanation, explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning etc. 516.    translation; rendering, rendition; redition^†; literal translation, free translation; key; secret; clew etc. (indication) 550; clavis^†, crib, pony, trot [U.S.].    exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary; inference etc. (deduction) 480; illustration, exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium^†, note; elucidation, dilucidation^†; eclaircissement [Fr.], mot d'enigme [Fr.].    [methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology [Med.], semiology, semeiology^†, semiotics; metoposcopy^†, physiognomy; paleography etc. (philology) 560; oneirology acception^†, acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection, construction, version.    equivalent, equivalent meaning etc. 516; synonym; paraphrase, metaphrase^†; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary etc. 562; polyglot.    ... show more

Dutch: aanhechting, bijstelling, appositie
Polish: dopowiedzenie, apozycja

biology Growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material.

The act of positioning close together (or side by side).

synonyms: collocation, juxtaposition.

Roget 199: contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal^†, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse^†, rencontre^†, rencounter^†, syzygy [Astr.], coincidence, coexistence; adhesion etc. 46; touching etc. v.. (touch) 379.    borderland; frontier etc. (limit) 233; tangent; abutter.    ... show more