adjacencyn.

Brit.

/əˈdʒeɪs(ə)nsi/, U.S.

/əˈdʒeɪsənsi/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin adiacentia.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin adiacentia easy disposition (5th cent. in Augustine), appurtenance, adjunct, neighbouring dependent territory (6th cent.; frequently from 11th cent. in British sources; usually in plural) < classical Latin adiacent- , adiacēns , present participle of adiacēre (see adjacent adj.) + -ia -y suffix³. Compare Old French ajabcence , ajacence (1315), Old French, Middle French adjacence (1346), all in sense ‘dependent demesne’ (compare sense 2), and (apparently independently reborrowed) French adjacence fact or quality of being adjacent (1866), Italian adiacenza (14th cent.). With sense 1 compare earlier adjacence n.

1. The fact, quality, or state of being adjacent; contiguity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > adjacency

confinity1544

adjacence1605

apposition1606

adjacency1640

contiguity1796

co-adjacency1842

co-adjacence1850

1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 126 The common goale or prison of the City, since removed to Westgate, being then kept by it, that is in that part of it which is to the street-ward, was from it[s] adjacency to it, so called also.

1664 J. Exton Maritime Dicæol. ii. iv. 61 The Towns or Cities adjoyning to the Ports, for their adjacency, are termed Ports as well as the Ports themselves.

1754 London Mag. June 261/1 She..has not been tempted to add to her continent, other countries, by any convenience of adjacency.

1780 E. Macfait New Syst. Gen. Geogr. 259 The colds produced from the adjacency of frozen mountains.

1854 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay II. 31 All great cities that ever were founded have sought out, as their first and elementary condition, the adjacency of some great cleansing river.

1943 Michigan: Guide to Wolverine State (Federal Writers' Project) (new ed.) 16 Only two major points of geographical kinship are readily discernible: their nearness at the Straits of Mackinac and their adjacency to the Great Lakes.

1962 Times 11 Dec. 11/7 The cautious adjacency of the two religions, is a part..of the slow flow of Jordan's national life.

2003 A. Jaffe Casting for Big Ideas v. 111 Advertisers complain that the digital model cannot give them adjacency to content with the same power..as the analog, hard copy world.

a. An adjacent place or location. Frequently in plural: adjacent places, environs, or precincts. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near

neighbour?c1225

adjacenta1456

neighbourer1612

adjoiner1628

adjacency1646

the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near > a near place > neighbourhood (of a place)

vicinagea1325

neighbourhoodc1450

precincts1479

neighboured1555

verge1641

adjacency1646

voisinage1649

environsc1660

vicinity1781

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 64 At that point the needle conforms unto the true Meridian, and is not distract by the vicinity of Adjacencyes .

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. vi. 78 He pitches his grand Army or chief Encampment in our Adjacencies or Frontiers.

1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 29 I returned to Calais, and was accompanied to the immediate adjacency by one of the parties.

1866 T. Carlyle E. Irving 272 The Palais Royal and adjacencies.

1917 Musical Times 58 514/1 General Capello, the famous commander of the Second Army Corps which lately took Monte Santo and adjacencies.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Mar. b5/4 The band..found themselves trying to find a place to sit as more and more women angled for an adjacency.

b. North American. In a television or radio schedule: either of the programmes broadcast immediately before or after another, esp. considered in terms of viewing figures. Also: a time slot for advertising between two programmes, as opposed to a commercial break within a programme.

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society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > time of broadcast or place in schedule

fixed point1778

time1924

airtime1931

spot1937

adjacency1947

prime time1947

airdate1950

space1956

slotting1959

airspace1960

time slot1962

slot1964

strand1979

1947 Billboard 17 Apr. 10/1 An excellent combination of choice time and top-notch adjacencies, Arthur Hale can go to work for any sponsor.

1955 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 28 Mar. 4/7 Are you still wondering about adjacencies? Well, each TV show has two adjacencies—the show before it and the one following. Thus on many stations John Daly—lucky fellow—is an adjacency of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

1980 Bell Jrnl. Econ. 11 695 All commercial television stations derive revenue from the sale of commercial ‘spots’ directly to local, national, and regional advertisers. Commercial spots are broadcast both within and between programs. Those broadcast between programs are referred to as ‘adjacencies’.

2006 W. McDowell Broadcast Television iii. 32 Although network compensation is certainly a good thing for a station's coffers, far more revenue is generated from selling commercial adjacencies. One nagging problem alluded to earlier is that adjacencies are few in number.

Compounds

adjacency matrix n. Mathematics a matrix representing the number of edges connecting each vertex of a graph (graph n.¹ 1).

ΚΠ

1956 C. E. Shannon in IRE Trans. Information Theory 2 10/1 Let us define the adjacency matrix for a channel, Aij.

1979 E. S. Page & L. B. Wilson Introd. Computational Combinatorics iv. 81 An adjacency matrix is (n x n) where n is the number of points in the graph.

2006 Math. Mag. 79 349 We construct a digraph..to represent the structure of the layout, and from that construct an adjacency matrix.

adjacency pair n. Linguistics two successive utterances by different speakers, where the second is a necessary or expected response to the first, as in an exchange of greetings.

ΚΠ

1973 E. A. Schegloff & H. Sacks in Semiotica 8 iv. 295 We note first that the terminal exchange is a case of a class of utterance sequences which we have been studying for some years, namely, the utterance pair, or, as we shall refer to it henceforth, the adjacency pair.

1992 Internat. Encycl. Ling. IV. 148/1 Conversational routines and adjacency pairs—e.g. greetings, compliments, and responses—are also important as socially constructed units of discourse.

2004 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 88 601/1 The initial exchange is a routine adjacency pair.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	adjacency
释义	adjacencyn. Brit. /əˈdʒeɪs(ə)nsi/, U.S. /əˈdʒeɪsənsi/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin adiacentia. Etymology: < post-classical Latin adiacentia easy disposition (5th cent. in Augustine), appurtenance, adjunct, neighbouring dependent territory (6th cent.; frequently from 11th cent. in British sources; usually in plural) < classical Latin adiacent- , adiacēns , present participle of adiacēre (see adjacent adj.) + -ia -y suffix³. Compare Old French ajabcence , ajacence (1315), Old French, Middle French adjacence (1346), all in sense ‘dependent demesne’ (compare sense 2), and (apparently independently reborrowed) French adjacence fact or quality of being adjacent (1866), Italian adiacenza (14th cent.). With sense 1 compare earlier adjacence n. 1. The fact, quality, or state of being adjacent; contiguity. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > adjacency confinity1544 adjacence1605 apposition1606 adjacency1640 contiguity1796 co-adjacency1842 co-adjacence1850 1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 126 The common goale or prison of the City, since removed to Westgate, being then kept by it, that is in that part of it which is to the street-ward, was from it[s] adjacency to it, so called also. 1664 J. Exton Maritime Dicæol. ii. iv. 61 The Towns or Cities adjoyning to the Ports, for their adjacency, are termed Ports as well as the Ports themselves. 1754 London Mag. June 261/1 She..has not been tempted to add to her continent, other countries, by any convenience of adjacency. 1780 E. Macfait New Syst. Gen. Geogr. 259 The colds produced from the adjacency of frozen mountains. 1854 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay II. 31 All great cities that ever were founded have sought out, as their first and elementary condition, the adjacency of some great cleansing river. 1943 Michigan: Guide to Wolverine State (Federal Writers' Project) (new ed.) 16 Only two major points of geographical kinship are readily discernible: their nearness at the Straits of Mackinac and their adjacency to the Great Lakes. 1962 Times 11 Dec. 11/7 The cautious adjacency of the two religions, is a part..of the slow flow of Jordan's national life. 2003 A. Jaffe Casting for Big Ideas v. 111 Advertisers complain that the digital model cannot give them adjacency to content with the same power..as the analog, hard copy world. 2. a. An adjacent place or location. Frequently in plural: adjacent places, environs, or precincts. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near neighbour?c1225 adjacenta1456 neighbourer1612 adjoiner1628 adjacency1646 the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near > a near place > neighbourhood (of a place) vicinagea1325 neighbourhoodc1450 precincts1479 neighboured1555 verge1641 adjacency1646 voisinage1649 environsc1660 vicinity1781 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 64 At that point the needle conforms unto the true Meridian, and is not distract by the vicinity of Adjacencyes . View more context for this quotation 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. vi. 78 He pitches his grand Army or chief Encampment in our Adjacencies or Frontiers. 1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 29 I returned to Calais, and was accompanied to the immediate adjacency by one of the parties. 1866 T. Carlyle E. Irving 272 The Palais Royal and adjacencies. 1917 Musical Times 58 514/1 General Capello, the famous commander of the Second Army Corps which lately took Monte Santo and adjacencies. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Mar. b5/4 The band..found themselves trying to find a place to sit as more and more women angled for an adjacency. b. North American. In a television or radio schedule: either of the programmes broadcast immediately before or after another, esp. considered in terms of viewing figures. Also: a time slot for advertising between two programmes, as opposed to a commercial break within a programme. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > time of broadcast or place in schedule fixed point1778 time1924 airtime1931 spot1937 adjacency1947 prime time1947 airdate1950 space1956 slotting1959 airspace1960 time slot1962 slot1964 strand1979 1947 Billboard 17 Apr. 10/1 An excellent combination of choice time and top-notch adjacencies, Arthur Hale can go to work for any sponsor. 1955 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 28 Mar. 4/7 Are you still wondering about adjacencies? Well, each TV show has two adjacencies—the show before it and the one following. Thus on many stations John Daly—lucky fellow—is an adjacency of Kukla, Fran and Ollie. 1980 Bell Jrnl. Econ. 11 695 All commercial television stations derive revenue from the sale of commercial ‘spots’ directly to local, national, and regional advertisers. Commercial spots are broadcast both within and between programs. Those broadcast between programs are referred to as ‘adjacencies’. 2006 W. McDowell Broadcast Television iii. 32 Although network compensation is certainly a good thing for a station's coffers, far more revenue is generated from selling commercial adjacencies. One nagging problem alluded to earlier is that adjacencies are few in number. Compounds adjacency matrix n. Mathematics a matrix representing the number of edges connecting each vertex of a graph (graph n.¹ 1). ΚΠ 1956 C. E. Shannon in IRE Trans. Information Theory 2 10/1 Let us define the adjacency matrix for a channel, Aij. 1979 E. S. Page & L. B. Wilson Introd. Computational Combinatorics iv. 81 An adjacency matrix is (n x n) where n is the number of points in the graph. 2006 Math. Mag. 79 349 We construct a digraph..to represent the structure of the layout, and from that construct an adjacency matrix. adjacency pair n. Linguistics two successive utterances by different speakers, where the second is a necessary or expected response to the first, as in an exchange of greetings. ΚΠ 1973 E. A. Schegloff & H. Sacks in Semiotica 8 iv. 295 We note first that the terminal exchange is a case of a class of utterance sequences which we have been studying for some years, namely, the utterance pair, or, as we shall refer to it henceforth, the adjacency pair. 1992 Internat. Encycl. Ling. IV. 148/1 Conversational routines and adjacency pairs—e.g. greetings, compliments, and responses—are also important as socially constructed units of discourse. 2004 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 88 601/1 The initial exchange is a routine adjacency pair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1640
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