Adjacency

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
  


     Syn: contiguousness
          [1913 Webster]
  
     2. That which is adjacent. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adjacency
       n : 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)