vicinal

American  

[vis-uh-nl] / ˈvɪs ə nl /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to a neighborhood or district.

2. neighboring; adjacent.

3. Crystallography. noting a plane the position of which varies very little from that of a fundamental plane of the form.

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vicinal British  

/ ˈvɪsɪnəl /

adjective

1. neighbouring

2. (esp of roads) of or relating to a locality or neighbourhood

3. chem relating to or designating two adjacent atoms to which groups are attached in a chain

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Etymology

Origin of vicinal

1615–25; < Latin vīcīnālis, equivalent to vīcīn ( us ) near + -ālis -al ¹; vicinity

Example Sentences

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

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

One or two benzene nuclei may suffer condensation with the furfurane, thiophene and pyrrol rings, the common carbon atoms being vicinal to the hetero-atom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

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

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