from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Close to; lying near.
adjective Next to; adjoining.
from The Century Dictionary.
Lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: as, a field adjacent to the highway.
noun That which is next or contiguous; an abutting neighbor.
noun In logic, a predicate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun rare That which is adjacent.
adjective Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
adjective (Geom.) See Angle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
adjective Just before, after, or facing.
noun Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
preposition USNext to; adjacent to; beside.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
adjective nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
adjective near or close to but not necessarily touching
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Latin adiacēns, adiacent-, present participle of adiacēre, to lie near : ad-, ad- + iacēre, to lie; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]
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Latin adiacēns, adiacentis.
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To an economist or strategic planner, a city represents an area of dominant influence over markets in adjacent areas.
There were two workshops in adjacent rooms that had a big topic overlap: SE Foundations for End-user programming (SEE-UP) and Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering (SECSE, pronounced “sexy”).
There were two workshops in adjacent rooms that had a big topic overlap: SE Foundations for End-user programming (SEE-UP) and Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering (SECSE, pronounced “sexy”).
There were two workshops in adjacent rooms that had a big topic overlap: SE Foundations for End-user programming (SEE-UP) and Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering (SECSE, pronounced “sexy”).
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Los Indios is a very easy crossing point, with the immigration and aduana in adjacent buildings and with copy machines available and with no lines whatsoever.
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