Adjective

(en adjective)

Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

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(mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of operations of rotation, translation and scaling.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.

* c.1833-1856 , Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol'', in '' ,

Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation;.

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Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr F.’s Aunt had a great deal of spirit.

* 1919 , , Chapter 15: The Expanding Vocabulary,

Rough-neck'' is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English ''navvy , and it is over-whelmingly more American.

Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.

* 1971 , University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , Volume 34, page 262,

In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.

Related, homologous.

* 2000 , David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles'', in ''Pericles: Critical Essays ,

If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.