What is "postposition"

Postposition \Post`po*si"tion\, n. [Cf. F. postposition. See Postpone.]

1. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. ``The postposition of the nominative case to the verb.''
   --Mede.

2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; -- distinguished from preposition.

"act of placing after, 1630s, from post- + position (n.). Related: Postpositional.

n. 1 (context grammar English) Any of various words in languages such as German, Hindi, Japanese and Finno-Ugric languages (Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian) that have the same purpose as a preposition but come ''after'' the noun. 2 The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.

n. (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached)