Suppose that I have two objects, A and B (let's say two wooden cubes). If I arrange them in space like this:
A
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B
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the action would be stacking. I'm looking for a single word that is the equivalent of putting side by side:
A | B
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Side-ing is not a valid word, apparently. 🙂
(In case someone is curious why I'm asking: I'm a programmer, and I need the names of the functions that I write to be short and expressive, so the users will remember them easily and won't need to read supplemental documentation figure out what these functions are intended to do).
Best Answer
You are either aligning your blocks (that is, arranging them in a line) or juxtaposing them.
The latter (juxtaposing) works better if you have only two blocks; for more than that, go with aligning.