juxtaposition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).
Inflected forms:
form: juxtapositions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: juxta-position
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: juxtapositions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: juxtapositioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: juxtapositioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: juxtapositioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: juxta-position
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
gloss: The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Example: mother father instead of mother and father
gloss: The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a#92;timesb collapses to ab.
A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.
gloss: The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
gloss: The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.
gloss: The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
examples: Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.
gloss: To place in juxtaposition.
pos: verb
Related words: juxtapose
juxtaposed
juxtapositive
Derived words: juxtapositional
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: съпоста́вяне
roman: sǎpostávjane
lang: Catalan
word: juxtaposició
lang: Esperanto
word: kunmeto
lang: Finnish
word: vierekkäin asettelu
lang: French
word: juxtaposition
lang: Georgian
word: სიახლოვე
roman: siaxlove
lang: Hungarian
word: egymásmellettiség
lang: Hungarian
word: egymás mellé állítás/helyezés
lang: Russian
word: бли́зость
roman: blízostʹ
lang: Tagalog
word: pagkakaiba
lang: Georgian
word: შედარება
roman: šedareba
lang: German
word: Gegenüberstellung
lang: Hungarian
word: szembeállítás
lang: Hungarian
word: szembenállás
lang: Swedish
word: sida vid sida