Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Apposition has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
"`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
"it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.