Definition of "juxtaposition"

juxtaposition

/ˌd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural juxtapositions
1. The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
  Quotations
  It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
  1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend
  1. (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
  2. (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
    Quotations
    A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.
    2007, Lawrence Moss, Hans-Jörg Tiede, “Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics”, in P. Blackburn et al., editors, Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, page 1054
2. The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
  1. (art) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
  2. (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
verb
third-person singular simple present juxtapositions, present participle juxtapositioning, simple past and past participle juxtapositioned
1. To place in juxtaposition.