adjacent

English

WOTD - 11 February 2009    

Etymology

From Latin adiacēns, present active participle of adiaceō (“adjoin, border”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/, SAMPA: /@"dZeI.s@nt/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

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.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Related terms

• adjacency
• adjacently

Translations

lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring

Bengali: সন্নিহিত (bn), সংলগ্ন (bn), লাগোয়া (bn) Bulgarian: близък (bg), съседен (bg), допиращ се (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 鄰近的 (zh), 邻近的 (zh) (línjìn de) Czech: přilehlý (cs) Dutch: aanpalend (nl), er naast liggend (nl), aangrenzend (nl), belendend (nl) Finnish: viereinen (fi) French: adjacent (fr) German: daneben (de), anliegend (de), benachbart (de)

Hungarian: szomszédos (hu) Italian: adiacente (it) Norwegian: nabo- (no), ved siden av (no) Persian: همسایه (fa) (hamsâye) Polish: przyległy (pl) m., przylegający (pl) m. Portuguese: adjacente (pt) Russian: соседний (ru) (sosédnij), прилегающий (ru) (prilegájuščij), примыкающий (ru) (primykájuščij) Scottish Gaelic: dlùth (gd) Spanish: adyacente (es), colindante (es), contiguo (es)

just before, after, or facing

Bulgarian: съседен (bg) Czech: přilehlý (cs) Dutch: aanpalend (nl), tegenoverstaand (nl) Finnish: viereinen (fi) German: umliegend (de), nachfolgend (de), darauffolgend (de) Italian: adiacente (it)

Norwegian: foregående (no), forutgående (no) (both signifying previous), etterfølgende (no), følgende (no), påfølgende (no), neste (no) (all signifying next), motsatt (no) (facing) Portuguese: adjacente (pt) Russian: соседний (ru) (sosédnij), прилегающий (ru) (prilegájuščij)

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Vietnamese: gần, liền, ngay, nối

Noun

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

Preposition

adjacent

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

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Etymology

From Latin adiacēns, present active participle of adiaceō (“adjoin, border”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /adʒasɑ̃/, X-SAMPA: /adZasA~/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

adjacent m. (f. adjacente, m. plural adjacents, f. plural adjacentes)

1. adjacent