adjacency
The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touchThe quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
» The adjacency pair has five basic characteristics.
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2 senses(countable, uncountable)The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
Nachbarschaft, Nähe, Benachbarung
сосе́дствоsosédstvo, сме́жностьsméžnostʹ, сопреде́льностьsopredélʹnostʹ
(countable, uncountable)The programming directly before or after a commercial.
- the attribute of being so near as to be touching
Examples
1 sentencesThe adjacency pair has five basic characteristics.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From adjacence + -y.From adjacence + -y.
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Forms
plural: adjacencies| Singular | adjacency |
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regular
Synonyms
2 synonyms- the attribute of being so near as to be touching:contiguitycontiguousness
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.