Adjacent

//əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt// adj, noun, prep

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Just before, after, or facing. not-comparable

    "The picture is on the adjacent page."

  3. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    near or close to but not necessarily touching wordnet
  2. 2
    nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space wordnet
  3. 3
    having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching wordnet
Noun
  1. 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."

Preposition
  1. 1
    Next to; beside.

    "The house adjacent to the school was demolished."

  2. 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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“I lie down”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“I lie down”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“I lie down”).

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