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 and divides as vi-ci-nal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.