adjacent block

collocation in English

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adjacent
adjective
uk
/əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/us
/əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/
very near, next to, ...
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block
noun
uk
/blɒk/us
/blɑːk/
mainly US
the distance along a street from where one road crosses it to the place where the next road crosses it, or one part of a street like this, especially in a town ...
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(Definition ofadjacentandblockfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the model under consideration, the width of the fissure is much smaller than the dimension of theadjacentblock.
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Exposure to dust included visiting or working on a building site, or living in, on, or near a building site on anadjacentblock, or a similar circumstance.
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Construction started in early 2013 on an additional five-story apartment building in theadjacentblockthat is scheduled to be completed in 2014.
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During the construction period, the public library housed in temporary premises in a former school in theadjacentblockto the northeast.
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A larger store was rebuilt on the same location, which later included a parking garage on anadjacentblockconnected by a skywalk.
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Recombination is expected to exchange sets of contiguous sites, generating blocks of compatible sites that are incompatible with adjacent blocks.
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The welding fabrics in the blocks are disorientated between adjacent blocks and the clast boundaries vary from diffuse to sharp.
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The guide must provide for traffic control within the blocks, coordinated with adjacent blocks so that there are no overlapping areas.
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There will be 51 single flats in the hospital and two adjacent blocks of flats which married doctors will occupy as available and required.
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The answer to this last question is of particular importance for the residents of the eight adjacent blocks.
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Students can travel to adjacent blocks by linked walkways or footbridges.
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Horizontally adjacent blocks constitute a "band" (the vertical equivalent is called a "stack").
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Adjacent blocks are separated by gaps of half a block or 0.6m ft.
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In its original formulation, a rock bolt was modeled as a line spring connecting two adjacent blocks.
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Sometimes certain blocks will appear in the game grid which have special properties other than connecting adjacent blocks.
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Blocks have different colors: drilling a block of a certain color will also break all adjacent blocks with the same color.
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The buildings along this block are from three to five stories in height, lower than the more modern buildings on adjacent blocks.
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This is because a plaintext block can be recovered from two adjacent blocks of ciphertext.
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The relation between adjacent blocks is governed by equations of contact interpenetration and accounts for friction.
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Otherwise, the filter strength is determined by coding modes of adjacent blocks, quantization step size, and the steepness of the luminance gradient between blocks.
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