adjacent

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/

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adjacent (not comparable)

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

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

2. Just before, after, or facing.

   The picture is on the adjacent page.

• (lying next to): abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

• (lying next to): apart, distant, nonadjacent

• adjace
• adjacency
• adjacently

adjacent (plural adjacents)

1. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
   • 1980, Faber Birren, The textile colorist

     Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.

   • 2011, Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies (page 194)

     Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse

adjacent

1. (US) Next to; adjacent to; beside.

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacēntem, present active participle of adiaceō (“adjoin, border”). Doublet of eina.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ə.d͡ʒəˈsent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ə.d͡ʒəˈsen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.d͡ʒaˈsent/

adjacent (masculine and feminine plural adjacents)

1. adjacent

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacēntem, present active participle of adiaceō (“adjoin, border”). Doublet of aise.

• IPA^(key): /a.dʒa.sɑ̃/

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adjacent (feminine singular adjacente, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentes)

1. adjacent

• “adjacent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

adjacent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjaceō