Other Word Forms
- nonadjacency noun
Etymology
Origin of adjacency
From the Late Latin word adjacentia, dating back to 1640–50. See adjacent, -ency
Example Sentences
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The adjacency arises from the Virginian’s embrace of those parts of the president’s agenda that cohere with an older American conservatism.
It referenced “new growth adjacencies and the benefit from AI adoption,” Macquarie says.
But with a few smaller parts and a lifetime of Hollywood adjacency under her belt, Johnson herself was experienced enough to pull off Anastasia’s dolting ignorance.
From Salon
The hexagon principle could be applied to optimize the self-organization of small structures into larger ones -- as regards the shape of the building blocks or the possibility of bonds and adjacency relations with other particles.
From Science Daily
“The intimacy, the storytelling, the adjacency to the artist is part of the art experience,” Nawi says.
From Los Angeles Times
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