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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Juxtaposition \Jux'ta*po*si"tion\ (j[u^]ks't[.a]*p[-o]*z[i^]sh"[u^]n), noun [L. juxta near + positio position: cf. F. juxtaposition. See {Just}, verb (used without an object), and {Position}.] A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.
Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. --Glanvill.
Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. --Hare.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
juxtaposition
noun
1: the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" [syn: {apposition}, {collocation}]
2: a side-by-side position
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "juxtaposition": abutment, abuttal, accession, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, adjunct, adjunction, affixation, agglutination, annexation, apposition, appulse, assemblage, assembly, attachment, augmentation, call-up, canvass, census, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comparison, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conterminousness, contiguity, convergence, corralling, coterminousness, data-gathering, gathering, increase, ingathering, inventory, joining, junction, mobilization, muster, perigee, perihelion, prefixation, reinforcement, rodeo, roundup, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplementation, survey, syzygy, union, uniting
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