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proximity

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun proximity has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

proximityn. [L. proximitas: cf. F. proximité See Proximate, and cf. Propinquity, Approach.].
     The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.  [1913 Webster]
    "If he plead proximity of blood
    That empty title is with ease withstood.
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

proximity, n. nearness in space, time, etc. (sat in close proximity to them).

Idiom
proximity fuse an electronic device causing a projectile to explode when near its target. proximity of blood kinship.
Etymology
ME f. F proximit{eacute} or L proximitas (as PROXIMAL)

THESAURUS

proximity

accord, addition, adjacency, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, approach, approximation, assemblage, association, bond, closeness, combination, confines, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contiguousness, contrariety, convergence, dealings, deduction, disjunction, environs, filiation, foreground, homology, immediacy, immediate foreground, intercourse, intimacy, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link, linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, precinct, propinquity, purlieus, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, similarity, sympathy, tie, tie-in, togetherness, union, vicinage, vicinity

ROGET THESAURUS

proximity

Nearness

N nearness, proximity, propinquity, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, adjacency, contiguity, short distance, short step, short cut, earshot, close quarters, stone's throw, bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot, hair's breadth, span, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland, whereabouts, bystander, neighbor, borderer, approach, convergence, perihelion, near, nigh, close at hand, near at hand, close, neighboring, bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining, proximate, proximal, at hand, handy, near the mark, near run, home, intimate, near, nigh, hard by, fast by, close to, close upon, hard upon, at the point of, next door to, within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot, within an ace of, but a step, not far from, at no great distance, on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of, in the environs, at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side, on the tip of one's tongue, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, in sight of, in presence of, at close quarters, cheek by jole, cheek by jowl, beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete, in juxtaposition, yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of, on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to, in the way, about, hereabouts, thereabouts, roughly, in round numbers, approximately, approximatively, as good as, well-nigh.

Contiguity

N contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (touch), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter, contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval.

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