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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun juxtaposition has 2 senses

1.  juxtaposition(n = noun.act) apposition, collocation - the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
is a kind of emplacement, locating, location, placement, position, positioning
has particulars: tessellation
Derived form verb juxtapose1

2.  juxtaposition(n = noun.location) - a side-by-side position;
is a kind of
place, position
Derived form verb juxtapose1


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

juxtaposition, n. [L. juxta near + positio position: cf. F. juxtaposition. See Just, v. i., and Position.].

   A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. [1913 Webster]
"Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition." [1913 Webster]
"Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity." [1913 Webster]


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Contiguity

N  contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (touch), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter, contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval.