About The Word Adjacent
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Adjacent
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What's The Definition Of Adjacent?
[adj] near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"
[adj] 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" [adj] having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Adjacent: abutting | adjoining | bordering(a) | close | connected | conterminous | contiguous | near | neighboring(a) | next | side by side(p) Related Terms | Find terms related to Adjacent: abutting | adjoining | attached | bordering | close-by | closest | connected | connecting | consecutive | conterminous | contiguous | coterminous | end to end | endways | endwise | face to face | handy | immediate | joined | juxtaposed | juxtapositional | juxtapositive | linked | nearby | nearest | neighbor | neighboring | next | successive | touching See Also | Adjacent In Webster's Dictionary \Ad*ja"cent\, a. [L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of
adjacere to lie near; ad + jac[=e]re to lie: cf. F.
adjacent.]
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.
Usage: {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. That which is adjacent. [R.] --Locke. |
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