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closely 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. in a close relation or position in time or space; "the onsets were closely timed"; "houses set closely together"; "was closely involved in monitoring daily progress"
  2. close: in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard"
  3. in a close manner; "the two phenomena are intimately connected"; "the person most nearly concerned"
  4. (closeness) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on"
  5. (closeness) stuffiness: the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
  6. (closeness) nearness: the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action"
  7. (closeness) meanness: extreme stinginess
  8. (closeness) characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
  9. (closeness) familiarity: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
  10. (Closeness (graph theory)) Within graph theory and network analysis, there are various measures of the centrality of a vertex within a graph that determine the relative importance of a vertex within the graph (for example, how important a person is within a social network, or, in the theory of ...
  11. (Closeness (topology)) In topology and related areas in mathematics closeness is one of the basic concepts in a topological space. Intuitively we say two sets are close if they are arbitrarily near to each other. ...
  12. (closeness) The state of being physically close; The state of being friends; The state of being mean or stingy; The state of being secretive; The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
  13. (Closeness) May indicate the intensity of feeling between the individuals involved in the Communication Process.  Example:  Greater distance usually conveys aloofness.
  14. (Closeness) Our best theory of counterfactuals, Lewis's theory, relies on comparisons between possible worlds. Indeed, it relies on comparisons between this world and other worlds. Such talk will be hard to paraphrase away if worlds aren't real.