abut on

English

Verb

abut on (third-person singular simple present abuts on, present participle abutting on, simple past and past participle abutted on)

1. (transitive) To border on.

   His land abuts on the road.

   • 1919, Katherine Routledge, The Mystery of Easter Island‎^[1], Cosimo, Inc. (2007), →ISBN, page 24:

     The fronts of the houses abut on the pathway, which is about four feet wide, and are unequally places, following the contour of the ground.

   • 1942, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Carnivorous Plants‎^[2], →ISBN, page 97:

     The stalked gland (14 — 12-15) has a capital of usually 32 cells radiating from the centre and standing out like an umbrella top. These cells all abut on a central short cell resting on the top of the long stalk cell.

   • 2007, Andrew Barker, The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece‎^[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 209:

     Now the two bounding notes of an enharmonic tetrachord of the relevant sort will indeed both be the lowest notes of pykna when the tetrachords are put together in conjunction; but the higher of them can never abut on a pyknon in the case envisaged here, where the tone is introduced to disjoin the tetrachords.

Translations

to border on

• French: s’avoisiner (fr), être adossé (fr), être contigu (fr)