单词 | adjacence |
释义 | adjacencen. = adjacency n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > adjacency confinity1544 adjacence1605 apposition1606 adjacency1640 contiguity1796 co-adjacency1842 co-adjacence1850 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh2 Their adiacence to forreine or vnlike bodies. View more context for this quotation 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 274 The Latins vicinity and nearer adjacence to Rome. 1718 W. Tilly Power, Virtue, & Infl. Christ's Resurrection 21 All their Revolutions, Circumstances, and Alterations, that arise..from the Adjacence or Influence of other Bodies. 1777 R. Erskine Let. 1 Aug. in G. Washington Papers (2000) X. 477 The adjacence to, and intersection of such Rivers with roads, will determine their Course with sufficient exactness. 1843 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 36/1 Whenever you find a spot in this country with the term Moor, as or in its name..you may almost always find in adjacence some indications of a settlement of the most ancient Britons. 1870 C. J. Smith Syn. & Antonyms Contact..Ant. Proximity, Adjacence. 1961 New Scientist 21 Sept. 751/1 The fourth scheme illustrated has less diagonal adjacence than the others, but it has one disadvantage. 1990 E. Gerry et al. in R. Whatley & C. Maybury Ostracoda & Global Events vi. 87/2 Species of typically marine genera..are found together with Simeonella brotzenorum and suggest mixing with or the close adjacence of marine waters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1605 |
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