apposition vs development

development vs apposition

apposition and development both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
apposition	Yes	No	No	No
development	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, development is a hypernym of apposition; that is, development is a word with a broader meaning than apposition:

apposition: (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
development: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

Other hypernyms of apposition include growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

apposition (noun)	development (noun)
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)	act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material	the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows	(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
	a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
	a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
	processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
	(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
	a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
	a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

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