apposition vs growing

growing vs apposition

apposition and growing both are nouns.

apposition is not an adjective while growing is an adjective.

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

As nouns, growing is a hypernym of apposition; that is, growing 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
growing: (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 development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

apposition (noun)	growing (noun)
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)	(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
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material	(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows

apposition (adjective)	growing (adjective)
	relating to or suitable for growth

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