Apposition
When we use two noun phrases (np) next to each other in a clause, and they refer to the same person or thing, we call this apposition: …

Examples of apposition

apposition
The peripheral asters come into close apposition with the cortex.
Heuristics are used only for apposition, embedded infinitive clauses, and nominal postmodifications.
A second monolayer is deposited onto this surface by horizontal apposition of the substrate to a monolayer at the same pressure.
It is the apposition of these elements and interaction of imperfections that give rise to diverse molecular interactions and chemical catalysis.
Oligodendrocytes and astrocytes are derived from ectodermal precursors and occur in close apposition to neurons.
This means that positing just one constituent structure for all the types of apposition is, he claims, simply not possible.
Apposition is a striking instance of a category that cannot be elucidated in that way.
Only so-called adverbial appositions were found to express the same relational meaning as the paradigm.
Change in the contour is associated in some with the onset of aortic regurgitation, presumably the result of impaired cusp apposition.
Thus, it can be assumed that subsequent thrombotic apposition can improve the initial result and complete the obstruction to blood flow.
It also explains why the verb in the sentence must be the verb to be, since the apposition relation allows for no other intervening verb.
In short, the outcome of these fragmentary analyses of the paradigm are approaches to apposition which, because they are too comprehensive, become virtually meaningless.
Five valves exhibited the leaflets to the left and right (38%), with the zone of apposition running antero-posteriorly.
They exhibit functional equivalence in praesentia, whereas so-called canonical appositions show equivalence in absentia of one of the members, through the substitution test.
However, there are more problems with the traditional concept of apposition than our account might have so far led us to believe.
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