juxtaposition

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act or an instance of juxtaposing or the state of being juxtaposed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of juxtaposing, or the state of being juxtaposed; the act of placing or the state of being placed in nearness or contiguity.

Wiktionary

1. n. The nearness of objects with no delimiter.
2. n. An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
3. n. Example: mother father instead of mother and father
4. n. An absence of operators in an expression.
5. n. Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a \times b \times c\! collapses to abc\!.
6. n. 2007, Lawrence Moss and Hans-Jörg Tiede, Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics, in: P. Blackburn et al. (eds), Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, p. 1054
7. n. A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.
8. n. The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
9. n. This template needs documentation and categorisation. Please create the documentation page.Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
10. n. The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
11. n. The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
12. n. Example: In 1965 the government was elected, in 1965 the economy took a dive.
13. v. To place in juxtaposition.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
2. n. a side-by-side position