apposition
noun
ap·po·si·tion
ˌa-pə-ˈzi-shən
plural appositions
1
a
: a grammatical construction in which two or more usually adjacent words, phrases, or clauses (especially nouns or noun equivalents) that have the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence (such as the poet and Burns in "a biography of the poet Burns")
b
: the relation between such words, phrases, or clauses
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