a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit
A search feature which looks for keywords which occur close to each other, in any order, in the document to be searched Proximity is usually "turned on" in a search by the use of an Operator such as NEAR, as in dog NEAR behaviour In some cases, the searcher may also designate that word "A" must occur with so many words of word "B", as in dog NEAR/3 behaviour (the word dog must occur within 3 words of behaviour) Proximity is usually offered only in advanced searching See also Adjacency, Phrase searching, Operators, and Boolean operators
Term often used to indicate closeness of one system component with respect to another, such as thate of a transponder with respect to a reader
Proximity to a place or person is nearness to that place or person. Part of the attraction is Darwin's proximity to Asia Families are no longer in close proximity to each other. nearness in distance or time proximity to (proximitas, from proximus; PROXIMATE)
search: A search where users to specify that documents returned should have the words near each other
Gestalt principle of organisation referring to the perceptual tendency to group together objects that are near to one another In the auditory perception, "near" means close in the frequency-time domain
Proximity is how close query terms are to each other within a document In this context, adjacency or phrase usually means that words must appear exactly in the order specified with no intervening words
A method of reading a card or key tag without requiring any physical contact between the card/tag and the reading device Click Here for a description of the operating principle behind proximity