vicinal
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or belonging to a neighborhood or district.
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neighboring; adjacent.
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Crystallography. noting a plane the position of which varies very little from that of a fundamental plane of the form.
adjective
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neighbouring
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(esp of roads) of or relating to a locality or neighbourhood
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chem relating to or designating two adjacent atoms to which groups are attached in a chain
Etymology
Origin of vicinal
1615–25; < Latin vīcīnālis, equivalent to vīcīn ( us ) near + -ālis -al 1; see vicinity
Example Sentences
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He called the dinky, vicinal railroads whose earnings did not warrant their existence a "cancerous growth" on the U. S. transportation system.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within a mile again, the track they were following—a very ancient vicinal way—began to rise over a long stretch of moorland used mainly for sheep-walks, and covered in places with wide patches of low-growing bilberry-bushes.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by Finnemore, John
He made a fire and began to broil them; the bride searched the vicinal woods for dried branches to feed the fire.
From It, and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur
Of the tri-derivatives the symmetrical compounds boil at the lowest temperature, the asymmetric next, and the vicinal at the highest.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
Dr. Stukely having discovered a Roman castrum and a vicinal road here, supposed it to be the Aquis of Ravennas.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
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