appositio
 ap-po-sit'-i-o L. ad “near” and positio “placement”
appositum
epitheton
apposition

Addition of an adjacent, coordinate, explanatory or descriptive element.
 
Examples
  Albert Einstein, perhaps the greatest of scientists, seemed not to have mastered the physics of hair combing.
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See Also
 

 
  Sources: Quintilian 8.6.40-43 ("appositum") ; Despauterius ("appositio") 17-18


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