vicinal

1. 1.

   belonging to or limited to a vicinity

Questions about vicinal

What does vicinal mean?

vicinal means "belonging to or limited to a vicinity".

How many syllables are in vicinal?

vicinal has 3 syllables: vi-ci-nal. The stress falls on "vi".

Is vicinal a common word?

vicinal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.