The spatial relationship between design elements (objects, images or text) in a visual medium.

Any of the phalanx bones of the fingers or toes which are nearest the hand or foot.

A fuse that is designed to detonate an explosive automatically when close enough to the target to destroy it.

(biochemistry, archaic) Any of a class of substances found ready-formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, such as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.

plural of proximate principle

(law) An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.

plural of proximity fuse

plural of proximity fuze

(anatomy) An intricate component of the nephron in a kidney that connects the Bowman's capsule to the loop of Henle.

A concept developed by Soviet psychologist and social constructivist Lev Vygotsky: the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help.