Crossword clues for adjacency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjacence \Ad"ja"cence\, Adjacency \Ad*ja"cen*cy\, [Cf. LL. adjacentia.]
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The state or attribute of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; the attribute of being so near as to be touching; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.
Syn: contiguousness
That which is adjacent. [R.]
--Sir T. Browne.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch. 2 (context countable English) A relationship of being adjacent to something.
WordNet
n. the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn: contiguity, contiguousness]
Usage examples of "adjacency".
Wherever anything in the pure spatial adjacency of physical things remains inexplicable, resort is had to hypothetical pictures whose content consists once more of nothing but spatially extended and spatially adjacent items.
The thought of sleighing cheered him for a moment, until, now on the outskirts of the village, he was sanitarily perturbed by the adjacency of dwelling houses and barns.
The adjacency is warping the neighborhood as well as the cislunar space-time continuum.
They looked up in no welcoming manner, at Bibbs's entrance, and moved their chairs to a less conspicuous adjacency.