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Adjacent
Definitions
- 1 Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on. not-comparable
"Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room."
- 2 Just before, after, or facing. not-comparable
"The picture is on the adjacent page."
- 3 Related to; suggestive of; bordering on. figuratively, not-comparable, postpositional
"It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials."
- 1 near or close to but not necessarily touching wordnet
- 2 nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space wordnet
- 3 having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching wordnet
- 1 Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
"Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents."
- 1 Next to; beside.
"The house adjacent to the school was demolished."
- 2 Related to; suggestive of; bordering on. figuratively
"While Amazon has increasingly become a one-stop shop for some people, we’re also seeing a large proliferation of online companies looking to connect with users wherever they happen to be spending the most time, whether that’s on a social media platform, or on a site that caters to interests adjacent to the businesses’s own — and most importantly not necessarily on the company’s own web properties."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“I lie down”).
Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“I lie down”).
Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“I lie down”).
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