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Definitions for adjacent
əˈdʒeɪ səntad·ja·cent

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. adjacent, next, side by side(p)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"

  2. adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)adjective

    having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching

    "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities"

  3. adjacentadjective

    near or close to but not necessarily touching

    "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"

Wiktionary

  1. adjacentnoun

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

  2. adjacentadjective

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

    Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.

  3. adjacentadjective

    Just before, after, or facing.

    The picture is on the adjacent page.

  4. adjacentpreposition

    Next to; adjacent to; beside.

  5. Etymology: adiacens, adiacentis.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Adjacentadjective

    Lying close; bordering upon something.

    Etymology: adjacens, Lat.

    It may corrupt within itself, although no part of it issue into the body adjacent. Francis Bacon, Nat. History, №. 771.

    Uniform pellucid mediums, such as water, have no sensible reflection but in their external superficies, where they are adjacent to other mediums of a different density. Isaac Newton, Opt.

  2. Adjacentnoun

    That which lies next another.

    The sense of the author goes visibly in its own train, and the words receiving a determined sense from their companions and adjacents, will not consent to give countenance and colour to what must be supported at any rate. John Locke, Ess. upon S. Paul.

ChatGPT

  1. adjacent

    Adjacent refers to something being next to or adjoining something else. It indicates immediate proximity without necessarily implying direct contact or continuity. The term is often used in various contexts such as mathematics, geography, and general use to describe the position of various objects, places, or concepts in relation to others.

  2. adjacent

    Adjacent refers to something being near, next to, or adjoining something else. It could be used to describe positions of rooms in a building, sides of a geometric figure, or nodes in a network, and so on. It essentially describes the positional relationship between two or more entities.

  3. adjacent

    Adjacent generally refers to something that is next to or adjoining something else. It defines the qualitative spatial relation between two entities which are side by side, near in space, or directly touching. This term is widely used in various sectors such as science, mathematics, technology, and geography.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Adjacentadjective

    lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway

  2. Adjacentnoun

    that which is adjacent

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Adjacent

    ad-jās′ent, adj. lying near to: contiguous.—n. Adjac′ency, the state of being near: that which is adjacent.—adv. Adjac′ently. [L. ad, to, jacēre, to lie.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. adjacent

    Lying close to another object; a word applied to the relative situations of capes or bays from the ship.--Adjacent angle is one immediately contiguous to another, so that they have one common side.

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'adjacent' in Adjectives Frequency: #981

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of adjacent in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of adjacent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of adjacent in a Sentence

  1. Vickareio Adderely:

    My house sounds like the ocean, there are three houses adjacent to mine that also lost their roof.

  2. Ben Marsh:

    I have seen where people, most often unwittingly shared misinformation that came from a QAnon or a Q-adjacent source.

  3. Santa Fe High School:

    There have been explosives devices found in the high school and surrounding areas adjacent to the high school, because of the threat of explosive items, community members should be on the look-out for suspicious packages and anything that looks out of place.

  4. Jonathan Forster:

    I wouldn't be surprised to see Spotify continue to invest in areas that are relevant or adjacent to our business.

  5. Andi Zeisler:

    I could absolutely see where a' glamorous' job adjacent to a lot of rich people, where Hugh Hefner have a screen of protection that Hugh Hefner would not have if Hugh Hefner were working at a regular restaurant... I'm sure that if Hugh Hefner posed a choice to a lot of women and it was the same wages, same hours, and emphasized the fact that Playboy Club seems sincere about wanting to protect Playboy Club workers, that would be more attractive.

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