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Grammar A construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence; for example, Copley and the painter in The painter Copley was born in Boston.
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Grammar The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
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A placing side by side or next to each other.
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Biology The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
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