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  • 81proximity — noun nearness in space, time, or relationship. Origin C15: from Fr. proximité, from L. proximitas, from proximus nearest …

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  • 82proximity — n. 1. Nearness. 2. Nearness, contiguity, adjacency, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood …

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  • 83proximity — n 1. proximateness, nearness, closeness, nighness, propinquity; approximation, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood; contiguity, contiguousness, conterminousness, adjacence, adjacency, juxtaposition, apposition. 2. kinship, relationship, relation,… …

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  • 84proximity — prox·im·i·ty …

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  • 85proximity — [prɒkˈsɪməti] noun [U] formal the state of being near someone or something …

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  • 86proximity — prox•im•i•ty [[t]prɒkˈsɪm ɪ ti[/t]] n. nearness in place, time, relation, etc • Etymology: 1475–85; < L proximitās nearness, vicinity. See proximal, ity …

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  • 87proximity fuze — proxim′ity fuze n. a device for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target • Etymology: 1940–45 …

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  • 88proximity — /prɒkˈsɪməti / (say prok simuhtee) noun nearness in place, time, or relation. {late Middle English, from Latin proximitas} …

  • 89proximity fuse — /prɒkˈsɪməti fjuz/ (say prok simuhtee fyoohz) noun a fuse designed to detonate a projectile, bomb, mine, or charge when activated by some external influence, as light, heat, etc., which is emitted by its target; variable time fuse …

  • 90proximity — Kindred between two persons. Quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness …

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