Vicinal may refer to:
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Vicinal (chemistry)
In chemistry the descriptor vicinal (from Latin ''vicinus'' = neighbor), abbreviated ''vic'', describes any two functional groups bonded to two adjacent carbon atoms (i.e., in a 1,2-relationship).
Relation of atoms in a molecule
For example, the ...
, stands for any two functional groups bonded to two adjacent atoms.
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Vicinal (logology)
A vicinal is a logological term for a word where all its letters have "alphabetic
An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing syste ...
, a word where all letters have alphabetic neighbors.
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Vicinal tramway
The National Company of Light Railways ( nl, Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen, abbreviated as NMVB; french: Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Vicinaux, abbreviated as SNCV) was a state-owned transportation provider which comprised ...
or ''Buurtspoor'', a system of narrow gauge tramways or local railways in Belgium.
* In materials science, a "vicinal substrate" is a
thin-film substrate whose
surface normal
In geometry, a normal is an object such as a line, ray, or vector that is perpendicular to a given object. For example, the normal line to a plane curve at a given point is the (infinite) line perpendicular to the tangent line to the curve at ...
deviates slightly from a major
crystallographic
Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids. Crystallography is a fundamental subject in the fields of materials science and solid-state physics (condensed matter physics). The word ...
axis.
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