A person or thing that apposes; something that places or positions items side by side.
From appose plus -er agent noun suffix. A formal term rarely used outside specialized grammatical or technical contexts.
While apposer is technically correct grammatically, it's so rarely used that most English speakers have never heard it—it's one of those words that exists in the logic of language but not in everyday speech.
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