adjacency
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]adjacency (countable and uncountable, plural adjacencies)
- The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
- 1672, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica[1]:
- at that point the Needle conforms unto the true Meridian, and is not distracted by the vicinity of Adjacencies.
- 2007 January 11, David W. Dunlap, “Still, the Question of Displaying the Names of 9/11”, in New York Times[2]:
- “With the adjacencies for victims whose families wish them to be listed together, […] , this is an approach that I hope will be acceptable to the great majority of the families affected,” he said afterward.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch
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