English-French translations for juxtaposition

• juxtaposition
  La juxtaposition de vingt-sept nombrils ne fait pas encore un grand projet continental. The juxtaposition of 27 navels does not yet make for a great continental project.
  Dans ce domaine comme dans bien d'autres, l'Union européenne n'est qu'une juxtaposition d'États. In this respect as in many others, the European Union is a mere juxtaposition of states.
  Il est illusoire de croire que la juxtaposition de communautés de passage, de mémoires séparées, font un pays. It is an illusion to believe that the juxtaposition of transitory communities, with different memories, can create a country.

Definition of juxtaposition

• The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter
• The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together
• To place in juxtaposition

Examples

• Example: mother father instead of mother and father
• Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. $a\; \backslash times\; b\; \backslash !$ collapses to $ab\backslash !$.
• There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
• The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
• Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.

Related words

• juxtapose
• juxtaposed
• juxtapositional
• juxtaposed compound