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Adjacency

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The state of being adjacent; contiguity.

n. A thing that is adjacent.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.

n. A relationship of being adjacent to something.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state of being adjacent, or of lying close or contiguous; proximity or near neighborhood: as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.

n. That which is adjacent.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the attribute of being so near as to be touching

Word Usage

"This so-called adjacency of neural inputs probably explains why some people report a sensation in their thighs when they need to have a bowel movement or feel a tingling in their toes during an orgasm."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

closeness nearness

Cross Reference

nearness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

non-ip osculation propinquity timeand positive-definite