The adjacency pair has five basic characteristics.
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Adjacency
//əˈdʒeɪsənsi//
Synonyms for "adjacency" (10 found)
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Closest matches (2)
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Noun(2 words)
Related words (5)
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2 entriesderived
6 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
20 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- непосредствена близост noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
- съседство noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Catalan
1 entries- adjacència noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Czech
1 entries- sousednost noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Finnish
2 entries- viereisyys noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
- vierekkäisyys noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
French
1 entries- adjacence noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
German
4 entries- Angrenzung noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
- Benachbarung noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
- Nachbarschaft noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
- Nähe noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Italian
1 entries- adiacenza noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Persian
1 entries- همسایگی noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Portuguese
1 entries- adjacência noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Russian
3 entries- сме́жность noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
- сопреде́льность noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
- сосе́дство noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- susjedništvo noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
- zbijenost noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Spanish
1 entries- adyacencia noun (the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
at that point the Needle conforms unto the true Meridian, and is not distracted by the vicinity of Adjacencies.
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“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.
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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.
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