adjacency
n.
being located next to, being adjacent; nearness
adjacency
Noun
1. the attribute of being so near as to be touching
(synonym) contiguity, contiguousness
(hypernym) nearness, closeness
Adjacency
The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.
That which is adjacent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
adjacency
<
networking> A relationship between two
network devices, e.g.
routers, which are connected by one media segment so that a packet sent by one can reach the other without going through another network device. The concept of adjacency is important in the exchange of routing information.
Adjacent
SNA nodes are nodes connected to a given node with no intervening nodes. In
DECnet and
OSI, adjacent nodes share a common segment (
Ethernet,
FDDI,
Token Ring).
(1998-03-10)
(c) Copyright 1993 by Denis Howe
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