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
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.
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.
adjacent
Next to; beside.
(figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
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
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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