Definition of Adjacency

1. Noun. The attribute of being so near as to be touching.


Definition of Adjacency

1. Noun. The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch. ¹

2. Noun. A relationship of being adjacent to something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adjacency

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjacency

aditus
aditus ad antrum
aditus ad aqueductum cerebri
aditus ad infundibulum
aditus ad saccum peritonei minorem
aditus glottidis inferior
aditus glottidis superior
aditus laryngis
aditus orbitae
adj
adj.
adjacence
adjacences
adjacencies
adjacency (current term)
adjacent
adjacent angle
adjacent wetlands
adjacently
adjacents
adject
adjected
adjection
adjectional
adjections
adjectitious
adjectival
adjectival noun
adjectival nouns

Literary usage of Adjacency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Electric Wires in Streets and Highways by Edward Quinton Keasbey (1900)
"Liability for actual interference with rights and privileges of adjacency to highway.— It does not follow that the land-owner is without redress if poles be ..."

2. Science and Faith; Or, Man as an Animal, and Man as a Member of Society by Paul Topinard (1899)
"Race, Population, Language, Surroundings, adjacency, Circumstances, Individuals, Needs. Up to the present we have seen: (i) Primitive man acquiring his ..."

3. Science and Faith; Or, Man as an Animal, and Man as a Member of Society by Paul Topinard (1899)
"Race, Population, Language, Surroundings, adjacency, Circumstances, Individuals, Needs. Up to the present we have seen: (1) Primitive man acquiring his ..."

4. Elements of Drawing by George Frederick Blessing, Lewis Andrew Darling (1912)
"By element of adjacency is meant that side-line of a letter which is nearest to the adjacent letter under consideration. (A) Spacing for various line ..."

5. Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings: Phase 1: Issues Identification and (1993)
"Background adjacency problems, such as pounding and common walls often ... adjacency conditions can have significant effects on building response and also ..."

6. Statistics and Science: A Festschrift for Terry Speed by Darlene Renee Goldstein, Terry Speed (2003)
"The subset is said to be symmetric if its adjacency matrix is a symmetric matrix. ... The adjacency matrix of QxQ is the all-1 matrix J. Definition An ..."

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