|1.||[ noun ] (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material|
|Related terms:||growth biology|
|2.||[ noun ] the act of positioning close together (or side by side)|
"it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
|Related terms:||location tessellation collocate|
|3.||[ noun ] (grammar) a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows|
"`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"