juxtaposition
Collocations
5ADJ.
mere, moving, negative
VERB + JUXTAPOSITION
using
JUXTAPOSITION + NOUN
corpuscles, multiplication
PREP.
with
ADV.
quite, rather
Definitions
noun
The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
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.
The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
Example: mother father instead of mother and father
The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
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.
The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
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.
verb
To place in juxtaposition.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
WiktionaryExample: mother father instead of mother and father
WiktionaryUsing juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a#92;timesb collapses to ab.
WiktionaryThe author's juxtaposition of the two characters highlights their flaws.
Tatoeba · #5598768The author's juxtaposition of the two characters highlights their differences, but also their similarities.
Tatoeba · #5598780That last sentence doesn't read well, maybe because of the juxtaposition of a negative and a positive.
Tatoeba · #5630866