Usually means: Placement of contrasting elements together.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. juxtaposition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. juxtaposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. juxtaposition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. juxtaposition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. juxtaposition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Juxtaposition, juxtaposition: Wordnik
  7. juxtaposition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. juxtaposition: Wiktionary
  9. juxtaposition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. juxtaposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. juxtaposition: Dictionary.com
  12. juxtaposition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. juxtaposition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Juxtaposition (disambiguation), Juxtaposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Juxtaposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. juxtaposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. juxtaposition: Rhymezone
  18. Juxtaposition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. juxtaposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. juxtaposition: Free Dictionary
  21. juxtaposition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. juxtaposition: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. juxtaposition: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  2. juxtaposition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. juxtaposition: Encyclopedia

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  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Juxtaposition: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Juxtaposition: MedFriendly Glossary
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  5. juxtaposition: Medical dictionary
  6. Juxtaposition: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. juxtaposition: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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  1. juxtaposition: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See juxtapositional as well.)

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noun:  The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
noun:  (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
noun:  (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
noun:  The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
noun:  (art) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
noun:  (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
verb:  To place in juxtaposition.

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