имя существительное 1) накладывание, прикладывание, присоединение 2) [лингвистика] приложение 3) [литературно-книжное] контактное положение Например: apposition of two electrodes — контактное положение двух электродов
noun 1. a. a grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence (as the poet and Burns in “a biography of the poet Burns”) b. the relation of one of such a pair of nouns or noun equivalents to the other 2. a. an act or instance of apposing; specifically the deposition of successive layers upon those already present (as in cell walls) b. the state of being apposed • appositional adjective