INTERPOSITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interposition mean? 

• INTERPOSITION (noun)
  The noun INTERPOSITION has 2 senses:

1. the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

2. the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

  Familiarity information: INTERPOSITION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERPOSITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

interjection; interpellation; interpolation; interposition

Hypernyms ("interposition" is a kind of...):

break; disruption; gap; interruption (an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity)

Derivation:

interpose (to insert between other elements)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

interposition; intervention

Hypernyms ("interposition" is a kind of...):

emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)

Derivation:

interpose (to insert between other elements)

 Context examples 

“True, true,” cried Mr. Knightley, with most ready interposition—“very true.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The wall thickening is sometimes said to be a result of the interposition of mesangial cytoplasm or matrix between the basement membrane and the endothelium of the capillary wall.

(Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Susan tried to be useful, where she could only have gone away and cried; and that Susan was useful she could perceive; that things, bad as they were, would have been worse but for such interposition, and that both her mother and Betsey were restrained from some excesses of very offensive indulgence and vulgarity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I walked awhile among the rocks: the sky was perfectly clear, and the sun so hot, that I was forced to turn my face from it: when all on a sudden it became obscure, as I thought, in a manner very different from what happens by the interposition of a cloud.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)