apposition vs maturation

maturation vs apposition

apposition and maturation both are nouns.

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

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

apposition (noun)	maturation (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	coming to full development; becoming mature
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows	(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

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