0 in grammar, a situation in which two nouns or noun phrases are used to refer to the same person or thing:
In the expression "my brother Joe", "my brother" and "Joe" are in 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.
