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Definition: Adjacency |
AdjacencyNoun1. The attribute of being so near as to be touching. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Adjacency |
Post & Telecom | A relationship between two network devices, e. g. routers, which are connected by one media segment so that a packet sent by one can reach the other without going through another network device. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AdjacencySynonyms: contiguity (n), contiguousness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nearness | Noun: nearness; Adjective: proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adjacency |
| English words defined with "adjacency": Adjacence. (references) |
| "Adjacency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adjacency" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adjacency matrix | 4 |
adjacency list | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adjacency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | afërsi (closeness, contiguity, familiarity, imminence, impendence, locality, nearness, neighborship, neighbourship, propinquity, proximity, vicinity). (various references) | |
Arabic | محاذاة, متاخمة (abutment), شىء متاخم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съседство (nearness, neighborhood, neighborship, neighbourhood, neighbourship, proximity), близост (alliance, appetence, appetency, approach, association, closeness, immediacy, impendence, nearness, neighborhood, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, reach, vicinity). (various references) | |
Danish | tilstoedende, naerliggende, naboskab (neighbourhood). (various references) | |
Dutch | aangrenzing, belending. (various references) | |
Farsi | مجاورت (Contiguity, Juxtaposition, Neighborhood, Propinquity, Proximity, Vicinity), نزدیکی (Accession, Affinity, Approximation, Contiguity, Propinquity, Proximity, Rapprochement, Verge, Vicinity). (various references) | |
Finnish | vierekkäisyys, viereisyys. (various references) | |
French | proximité (adjacencies), juxtaposition, contiguïté, confiner. (various references) | |
German | angrenzen (abut, adjoin, border, flank, to flank), Adjazenz, Zeichenabstandsverletzung. (various references) | |
Greek | γειτνίαση (contiguity, vicinity), ομορία. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szomszédosság (contiguity, nearness). (various references) | |
Italian | adiacenza. (various references) | |
Manx | faggysaght (nearness), faarid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adjacencyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | contiguidade (abutment, proximity), adjacência. (various references) | |
Romanian | adiacenţã, vecinãtate (closeness, limitation, nearness, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity), preajmã (neighborhood, neighbourhood, precinct, purlieu, vicinity), contiguitate (abutment, contiguity). (various references) | |
Russian | соседство (neighborhood, neighborship, neighbourhood, neighbourship, presence, vicinity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | susedstvo (contiguity, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinage, vicinity). (various references) | |
Spanish | proximidad (approximation, closeness, nearness, proximity). (various references) | |
Swedish | närhet (closeness, nearness, propinquity, proximity, vicinity). (various references) | |
Turkish | yakınlık (affinity, approximation, closeness, connection, connexion, contiguity, familiarity, immediacy, imminence, intimacy, kinship, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relationship, terms), civar (adjacencies, environs, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, precincts, purlieus, Vicinage, vicinity, way), bitişik olma (juxtaposition). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сусідство (neighborhood, neighborship, neighbourhood, neighbourship, presence, propinquity, proximity, vicinity), суміжність (contiguity, neighborship, neighbourship). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự kế liền (adjacence), sự gần kề (adjacence). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Adjacency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adjacens, adjecency. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-j-n-y" | |
-2 letters: cadency. | |
-4 letters: acned, caeca, candy, caned, cycad, dance, decay. | |
-5 letters: aced, acne, caca, cade, cane, ceca, cyan, dace, dean, deny, dyne, jade, jane, jean, nada, yean. | |
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