• Adjacency

    Full definition of adjacency

    Noun

    adjacency

    (countable and uncountable; plural adjacencys)
    1. (uncountable) The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
    2. (countable) A relationship of being adjacent to something.
      • 2007, January 11, David W. Dunlap, Still, the Question of Displaying the Names of 9/11, “With the adjacencies for victims whose families wish them to be listed together, and the removal of the shields, which were so objectionable to so many ...
        , this is an approach that I hope will be acceptable to the great majority of the families affected,” he said afterward.
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