Vicinal
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Vicinal may refer to:
- Vicinal (chemistry)Vicinal (chemistry)In chemistry vicinal stands for any two functional groups bonded to two adjacent carbon atoms. For example the molecule 2,3-dibromobutane carries two vicinal bromine atoms and 1,3-dibromobutane does not....
, stands for any two functional groups bonded to two adjacent atoms. - Vicinal (logology)Vicinal (logology)A vicinal is a logological term for a word where all its letters have "alphabetic neighbors". For instance, if a word has an "O" in it, to be a vicinal it must also have an "N" and/or a "P"...
, a word where all letters have alphabetic neighbors. - Vicinal tramwayVicinal tramwayThe Tramways vicinaux or Buurtspoorwegen were a system of narrow gauge tramways or local railways in Belgium, which covered the whole country and had a greater route length than the mainline railway system...
or Buurtspoor, a system of narrow gauge tramways or local railways in Belgium. - In materials science, a "vicinal substrate" is a thin-film substrateThin filmA thin film is a layer of material ranging from fractions of a nanometer to several micrometers in thickness. Electronic semiconductor devices and optical coatings are the main applications benefiting from thin film construction....
whose surface normalSurface normalA surface normal, or simply normal, to a flat surface is a vector that is perpendicular to that surface. A normal to a non-flat surface at a point P on the surface is a vector perpendicular to the tangent plane to that surface at P. The word "normal" is also used as an adjective: a line normal to a...
deviates slightly from a major crystallographic axis.