Juxtaposition \Jux`ta*po*si"tion\
(j[u^]ks`t[.a]*p[-o]*z[i^]sh"[u^]n), n. [L. juxta near +
positio position: cf. F. juxtaposition. See Just, v. i.,
and Position.]
A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side
by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.
[1913 Webster]
Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition.
--Glanvill.
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Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity.
--Hare.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
juxtaposition
n 1: the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it
is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting
colors" [syn: apposition, collocation]
2: a side-by-side position
WordNet (r) 2.0
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "juxtaposition":
abutment, abuttal, accession, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness,
adjunct, adjunction, affixation, agglutination, annexation,
apposition, appulse, assemblage, assembly, attachment,
augmentation, call-up, canvass, census, collection, colligation,
collocation, combination, comparison, concourse, concurrence,
confluence, conflux, congregation, conjugation, conjunction,
connection, conterminousness, contiguity, convergence, corralling,
coterminousness, data-gathering, gathering, increase, ingathering,
inventory, joining, junction, mobilization, muster, perigee,
perihelion, prefixation, reinforcement, rodeo, roundup,
suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction,
superposition, supplementation, survey, syzygy, union, uniting
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apposition, collocation
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