Adjacency vs Juxtaposition - What's the difference?
adjacency | juxtaposition |
(uncountable) The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
(countable) A relationship of being adjacent to something.
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The nearness of objects with no delimiter.
# (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
# (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
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The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
# (arts) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
# (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
As nouns the difference between adjacency and juxtaposition
is that adjacency is (uncountable) the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch while juxtaposition is the nearness of objects with no delimiter.As a verb juxtaposition is
to place in juxtaposition.adjacency
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* adjacency matrix * adjacency pairjuxtaposition
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(en noun)- Example: mother father'' instead of ''mother and father
- Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. collapses to .
- A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition .
- There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
- The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
- Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.