Crossword clues for proximity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proximity \Prox*im"i*ty\, n. [L. proximitas: cf. F. proximit['e] See Proximate, and cf. Propinquity, Approach.] The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.
If he plead proximity of blood
That empty title is with ease withstood.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Middle French proximité "nearness" (14c.), from Latin proximitatem (nominative proximitas) "nearness, vicinity," from proximus "nearest, next; most direct; adjoining," figuratively "latest, most recent; next, following; most faithful," superlative of prope "near" (see propinquity).
Wiktionary
n. closeness; the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship.
WordNet
n. the property of being close together [syn: propinquity]
the region close around a person or thing
a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit [syn: law of proximity]
Wikipedia
Proximity (typeset as ProXimity) is a 2001 Action/Thriller film starring Rob Lowe and James Coburn. It is written by Ben Queen and Seamus Ruane and directed by Scott Ziehl. The film is about an escaped prison convict (Lowe) and the head and founder (Coburn) of a support group called "Justice For The Victim's Families" who has his own tragic past and a dark secret.
Proximity may refer to:
- Distance, a numerical description of how far apart objects are
- Proxemics, the study of human spatial requirements and the effects of population density
- Proximity (film), a 2001 Action/Thriller film
- Proximity fuze, a fuze that detonates an explosive device automatically when the distance to the target becomes smaller than a predetermined value
- Proximity sensor, a sensor able to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact
- Proximity space, or nearness space, in topology
Usage examples of "proximity".
Though perplexing to his palate, it was anything but unpleasant, despite the immediate and unsettling proximity of its ambulatory alien origins.
Captain Hull knew the difficulty of the task he had undertaken, he was alive to the importance of making his approach to the whale from the leeward, so that there should be no sound to apprize the creature of the proximity of the boat.
I think the proximity of wine a matter of much more importance than the longinquity of water.
Witness the caravan they had passed, bones, naked bones in the sand, and a leader who should have known his business had miscalled the storm and the proximity of safety.
Victoria Morgenstern seemed to have been affected by the proximity of so many uniforms.
When the class was over, Paul decided to remain seated until Patina had exited the room, because his proximity to the doorway would then allow him to observe her at a distance of only two or three-feet.
At this point we can see both the proximity and the specific difference between the concepts of patrimonial state and national state.
Baltimore are prattlers, seeming to talk for the pleasure of hearing the sound of their voices, which are soft and slurry, doubtless from living in close proximity to Negroes.
And when the parties approached each other within some predefined radius-say a city block, or less-I would arrange for both implants to inform their wearers of the proximity of the other, via the deep neural connections I had already sewn.
A spear of excitement shot through his loins at the proximity of her reddening lips, her flashing eyes and soft breasts.
She had never been in the mainstream of Yedo politics, but the proximity of Hiraga and learning about the shishi from him--and secrets about him and Ori from the shoya--had given her an appetite.
Proximity to the infrared glow of the supergiant gave it a perpetual tropical climate, with the warm, wet air of the nearside constantly on the move, rushing around to the farside where it cooled, radiating its thermal load away into space, and then returning via storms which traversed the poles.
The Gezary was a sleek vessel with three nacelles in close proximity, like a trimaran sailing ship.
She felt a strong, upward welling breeze on her face, signifying the proximity of an unclimbable sheer drop.
When the assembly dispersed, I followed their Autocrat at his desire into his private apartments, where, resting among a pile of cushions and motioning me to take a place in immediate proximity to himself, he continued the conversation in a tone and manner so exactly the same as that he had employed in public as to show that the latter was not assumed for purposes of monarchical stage-play, but was the natural expression of his own character as developed under the influence of unlimited and uncontradicted power.