"adjacency" meaning in English

See adjacency in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-adjacency.wav 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 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, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 65 35 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of 'the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch': 99 1
  2. (broadcasting) The programming directly before or after a commercial. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Broadcasting
    Sense id: en-adjacency-en-noun-3WW3zG7E Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Topics: broadcasting, media
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: adjacency list, adjacency matrix, adjacency pair, biadjacency, coadjacency, nonadjacency

Inflected forms

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  "word": "adjacency"
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