Apposition

n.	1.	The act of adding; application; accretion. It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. - Arbuthnot.
	2.	The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
	3.	(Gram.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.) a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.

Noun	1.	apposition - a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"
	2.	apposition - (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
	3.	apposition - the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" Synonyms: juxtaposition, collocation

limiting, modification, qualifying