ADJACENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adjacency mean? 

• ADJACENCY (noun)
  The noun ADJACENCY has 1 sense:

1. the attribute of being so near as to be touching

  Familiarity information: ADJACENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADJACENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The attribute of being so near as to be touching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

adjacency; contiguity; contiguousness

Hypernyms ("adjacency" is a kind of...):

closeness; nearness (the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance)

Derivation:

adjacent (near or close to but not necessarily touching)

adjacent (nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space)

adjacent (having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching)