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Infraposition vs Circumposition - What's the difference?

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Infraposition is a related term of circumposition.


As nouns the difference between infraposition and circumposition

is that infraposition is a situation or position beneath while circumposition is (chiefly|technical) the act of positioning something around something else; or the state of being so positioned.

infraposition

English

Noun

(-)
  • A situation or position beneath.
    • (Kane)
    (Webster 1913)

    circumposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, technical) The act of positioning something around something else; or the state of being so positioned
  • *{{quote-journal, 2007, T. Lim et al., Factors affecting user performance in haptic assembly, Virtual Reality, volume=11, issue=4 citation
    • , passage=Ho and Boothroyd (1979) studied the intraposition of a peg into a hole and the circumposition of a part with a hole onto a peg. }}
  • (linguistics) A pair of adpositions that occur on either side of the complement
  • *{{quote-book, 1982, Ehsan Yar-Shater, Encyclopaedia Iranica, volume=2 citation
    • , passage=Ardestani has some postpositions: da "in," rd "for," and circumpositions : az.... da "from," pes... da "before," etc. }}
  • The act of circumposing.

    • Derived terms

    *circumpositional

    Related terms

    *adposition *ambiposition *circumpose *infraposition *interposition *intraposition *postposition *preposition *superposition

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