aposição
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin appositiōnem.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: a‧po‧si‧ção
Noun
editaposição f (plural aposições)
- (grammar) apposition (the placing of a noun with another as an explanatory equivalent)
- apposition (the quality of being side by side)
- apposition (the act of placing of two things side by side)
- (biology) apposition (growth of successive layers of cell wall)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “aposição”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024