apposition
ap.po.si.tion \.ap-*-'zish-*n\ \-'zish-n*l, -*n-*l\ \-e-\ n 1a: a
grammatical construction in which two typically adjacent nouns referring
to the same person or thing stand in the same syntactical relation to the
rest of a sentence (as the poet and Burns in "a biography of the poet
Burns") 1b: the relation of one of such a pair of nouns or noun equivalents
to the other 2a: an act or instance of apposing; specif : the deposition
of succ essive layers upon those already present (as in cell walls) 2b: the
state of being apposed - ap.po.si.tion.al aj