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What is the noun for apposes?

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apposition
  1. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
  2. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
  3. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
  4. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
  5. In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
  6. (rhetoric) Appositio
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Crustaceans that have apposition compound eyes as adults, like some crabs, may simply continue to use the larval design with few modifications.”
      “But most birds and Sphenodon lack intromittent organs and transfer sperm by cloacal apposition.”
      “You find, if you change a direction, you get an opposition and an apposition, which creates an irony, which creates a metaphor.”
apposer
  1. An examiner; one whose business is to put questions.
  2. (historical) In the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
appositional
  1. (linguistics) A compound or construction with apposed elements.
appositio
  1. (rhetoric) Addition of an element not syntactically required for purpose of description or explanation.
appositive
  1. (grammar) A word or phrase that is in apposition.
appositionals
  1. plural of appositional
appositions
  1. plural of apposition
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The first seven bead appositions led to spikes in the fiber position that represent adhesive events of varying duration.”
      “These connections consisted of close appositions between nonspecialized areas of the plasma membranes of the 2 cells.”
      “Hence the plug is a specialized cytoplasmic structure, unlike desmosomes, gap junctions, or septate junctions, which are formed from membrane appositions.”
appositives
  1. plural of appositive
  2. Examples:
    1. “I think the only potentially salvageable part of the claim is that long sequences of supplements and appositives should be avoided because they might make you sound dithery.”
      “The accumulating appositives recall the long unlikely narrative of even having this son.”
      “Grammatically, the first four types tend to be nouns and usually function as subjects, predicate nominatives, and appositives.”
apposers
  1. plural of apposer
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