adjacency

Examples

• All

• In the field of international human rights, adjacency claims, which tie new normative claims to the more established body of human rights norms, are particularly powerful.

  Academic text (2016)

• Among those are a building fit analysis that shows how buildings perform on a set of key business objectives and the company's operating style; an adjacency analysis that shows how much interaction exists between units, hence how closely they must be located to one another; a site analysis containing 15 variables.

  Academic text (2005)

• I think most writers live at some strange adjacency to experience, that they feel life most intensely in their re-creation of it.

  Academic text (2007)

• From this vision, the committee was led through a series of sessions to create the adjacencies of the various functions of the school, including the site design.

  Academic text (2011)

• In practice, the functional size of several of these vLPAs may be underestimated because of their adjacency to other protected areas, or overestimated in those cases where several unconnected landscapes are grouped under the same protected area name.

  Academic text (2010)

• The adjacency of the two houses allowed for easy communication between the families.

• We chose this hotel because of its adjacency to the conference center.

Synonyms

C

contact

vsadjacency

371 1.0

Physical touching between people or things

covers both actual connection and very near positions that may not touch

P

proximity

vsadjacency

112 4.2

Nearness in space, time, or relationship

adds stronger sense of possible physical contact beyond mere nearness

N

nearness

vsadjacency

4 1.0

The state of being close in place, time, or feeling

stresses proximity and can also imply actual touching

C

closeness

vsadjacency

4 2.3

How near one thing is to another in space

is more spatial and can suggest being so close that contact occurs

C

contiguity

vsadjacency

1 8.7

The state of being next to or touching something

can also mean being very near without necessarily sharing a border

P

propinquity

vsadjacency

1 9.9

Being close in place, time, or relationship

focuses more on physical position and possible direct contact

C

contiguousness

vsadjacency

8.8

Being next to and touching each other so the two parts share a border

is broader and can include near positions that do not touch

T

touching

vsadjacency

2.5

Contact when two things are put together with no space between them

describes general nearness rather than only the act of making two things meet

P

proximation

vsadjacency

8.6

Being close in space, time, or relationship

leans more toward physical position and sometimes direct touching

C

collaterality

vsadjacency

• Specialized

9.9

The position of a body part at the side of another, running alongside it

is more general about nearness and may apply beyond side-by-side arrangements

How Close

contact

371 1.0

adjacency

1 6.8

proximity

112 4.2

distance

739 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology