adjacency
/əˈdʒeɪsənsi/
noun
- The state of being next to or near something; closeness in position.
- The adjacency of the houses meant the neighbors could hear each other's music.
- The adjacency of the two chairs made conversation easy.
- Because of the adjacency of the library and the café, students often study there.
- In mathematics and computing, a relationship between two items that are next to each other, such as nodes in a graph or cells in a grid.
- In graph theory, adjacency is shown by a line connecting two points.
- The program checks the adjacency of each cell in the spreadsheet.
- The adjacency matrix lists which vertices are connected in the network.
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