juxtaposition

juxtaposition
    n 1: the act of positioning close together (or side by side);
         "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting
         colors" [syn: {juxtaposition}, {apposition}, {collocation}]
    2: a side-by-side position
    

Juxtaposition \Jux`ta*po*si"tion\
   (j[u^]ks`t[.a]*p[-o]*z[i^]sh"[u^]n), 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.
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         Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition.
                                                  --Glanvill.
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         Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity.
                                                  --Hare.
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63 Moby Thesaurus words for "juxtaposition":
      abutment, abuttal, accession, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness,
      adjunct, adjunction, affixation, agglutination, annexation,
      apposition, appulse, assemblage, assembly, attachment,
      augmentation, call-up, canvass, census, collection, colligation,
      collocation, combination, comparison, concourse, concurrence,
      confluence, conflux, congregation, conjugation, conjunction,
      connection, conterminousness, contiguity, convergence, corralling,
      coterminousness, data-gathering, gathering, increase, ingathering,
      inventory, joining, junction, mobilization, muster, perigee,
      perihelion, prefixation, reinforcement, rodeo, roundup,
      suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction,
      superposition, supplementation, survey, syzygy, union, uniting