From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adjacence \Ad"ja"cence\, Adjacency \Ad*ja"cen*cy\, [Cf. LL. adjacentia.]
1. The state or attribute of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; the attribute of being so near as to be touching; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.
2. That which is adjacent. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn: {contiguity}, {contiguousness}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
adjacency 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)
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