Dictionary

adjacency en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈdʒeɪsənsi/ (General-American)
• (US) audio

Etymology

From adjacence + -y.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
   • at that point the Needle conforms unto the true Meridian, and is not distracted by the vicinity of Adjacencies. 1672, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
   • X gained a second wind last year when Mr. Trump won the election. Some advertisers, courted by Ms. Yaccarino, returned to the platform partly because of Mr. Musk’s adjacency to the president. 2025 July 9, Mike Isaac, Kate Conger, “X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk’s Platform”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • “With the adjacencies for victims whose families wish them to be listed together,[…], this is an approach that I hope will be acceptable to the great majority of the families affected,” he said afterward. 2007 January 11, David W. Dunlap, “Still, the Question of Displaying the Names of 9/11”, in New York Times:
2. (countable, uncountable) The programming directly before or after a commercial.
   • The maker of film commercials should be especially aware of the film standards published by the networks and adhere to them carefully, as the effectiveness of his commercial is greatly affected by its adjacencies. He may well give serious thought in his production planning to the problem caused by adjacent film which, in most cases, will not be under his control. 2023, H. W. Coleman, Colour Television: Techniques, Business, Impact:

Forms

Deriveds

adjacency pair · nonadjacency · adjacency list · coadjacency · biadjacency · adjacency matrix

Translations (20)

de Benachbarung (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · bg съседство (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · ru сме́жность (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · sh zbijenost (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · de Nähe (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · es adyacencia (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · bg непосредствена близост (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · fa همسایگی (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · fi vierekkäisyys (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · fr adjacence (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · sh susjedništvo (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · ca adjacència (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · ru сосе́дство (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · de Angrenzung (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · it adiacenza (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · fi viereisyys (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · pt adjacência (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · de Nachbarschaft (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · ru сопреде́льность (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch) · cs sousednost (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)