"adjacency" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: adjacencies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} adjacency (countable and uncountable, plural adjacencies)
  1. The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: adjacency list, adjacency matrix, adjacency pair, biadjacency, coadjacency, nonadjacency Translations (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch): съседство (sǎsedstvo) (Bulgarian), непосредствена близост (neposredstvena blizost) (Bulgarian), adjacència [feminine] (Catalan), sousednost [feminine] (Czech), viereisyys (Finnish), vierekkäisyys (Finnish), adjacence [feminine] (French), Nachbarschaft [masculine] (German), Nähe [feminine] (German), Benachbarung (english: unusual) [feminine] (German), Angrenzung [feminine, rare] (German), adiacenza [feminine] (Italian), همسایگی (Persian), adjacência [feminine] (Portuguese), сосе́дство (sosédstvo) [neuter] (Russian), сме́жность (sméžnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), сопреде́льность (sopredélʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), susjedništvo [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), zbijenost [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), adyacencia [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-adjacency-en-noun-GTPwHp~k Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Persian terms with redundant script codes

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
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      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
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      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "sosédstvo",
      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sméžnostʹ",
      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "сме́жность"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "zbijenost"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch",
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