APPOSITION

apposition. apposition, adding or setting too.

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apposition. Apposition, n. a putting to or near, an addition

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Ap′po‐si″tion (�), n. [[L. appositio, fr. apponere: cf. F. apposition. See Apposite.]] 1. 1. The act of adding; application; accretion.
It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot. 2. 2. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
3. 3. (Gram.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.