ADJACENT

adjacent

(adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching; “lands adjacent to the mountains”; “New York and adjacent cities”

adjacent, next, side by side

(adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; “had adjacent rooms”; “in the next room”; “the person sitting next to me”; “our rooms were side by side”

adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring

(adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; “Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Connecticut”; “the side of Germany conterminous with France”; “Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho”; “neighboring cities”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

adjacent (not comparable)

Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent

Just before, after, or facing.

(figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Noun

adjacent (plural adjacents)

Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.

Preposition

adjacent

Next to; beside.

(figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Usage notes

This preposition is usually used with the word to, i.e, "adjacent to". However, in the U.S, adjacent is sometimes used on its own.

Source: Wiktionary

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Ad*ja"cent, a. Etym: [L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jac to lie: cf. F. adjacent.]

Definition: Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

Syn.

– Adjoining; contiguous; near.

– Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians. Howell. Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain.

Ad*ja"cent, n.

Definition: That which is adjacent. [R.] Locke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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