adjacent

English

WOTD – 11 February 2009

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/

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Adjective

adjacent (not comparable)

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

   Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

   Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent

   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.

3. (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
   • 2018 December 25, “Faith Leaders Speak about Leading Through Natural Disasters; Who's Been Naughty and Nice in 2018 Politics?”, in New Day‎^[1], Chris Cillizza (actor), via CNN, retrieved July 27, 2019:

     First of all, she's probably the most popular politics-adjacent figure in the country. She's not a politician. She's never run for anything, but I have said for a long time – I think we all agree – if she did ever want to run for something, she would be right at the front of the line.

Derived terms

• adjacency
• adjacently
• nonadjacent

Translations

lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: bitişik, yanaşıq
• Basque: ondoan, aldamenean, aldean, alboan
• Bengali: সন্নিহিত (śonnihito), সংলগ্ন (śoṅlogno), লাগোয়া (lagōẇa)
• Bulgarian: близък (bg) (blizǎk), съседен (bg) (sǎseden), допиращ се (dopirašt se)
• Catalan: adjacent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鄰近的／邻近的 (zh), 邻近的 (zh) (línjìn de)

• Czech: přilehlý
• Danish: tilstødende, tilliggende, ved siden af
• Dutch: aanpalend (nl), er naast liggend, aangrenzend (nl), belendend (nl), aanliggend (nl)
• Esperanto: najbara, apuda
• Finnish: viereinen (fi)
• French: adjacent (fr)
• Galician: adxacente (gl), contiguo (gl)
• German: daneben (de), anliegend (de), benachbart (de), adjazent (de)
• Hungarian: szomszédos (hu)
• Ido: adjacanta (io)
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• Interlingue:
• Italian: adiacente (it)
• Japanese: 隣接 (ja)
• Manchu: ᠠᡩᠠᡴᡳ (adaki)
• Maori: tūtata, pātata (mi), kāpīpiti, piritaha
• Norwegian: nabo-, ved siden av (no)

  Bokmål: tilstøtende

• Occitan: adjacent
• Persian: همسایه (fa) (hamsâye), مجاور (fa) (mojaver)
• Polish: przyległy (pl), przylegający
• Portuguese: adjacente (pt)
• Romanian: adiacent (ro)
• Russian: сосе́дний (ru) (sosédnij), прилега́ющий (ru) (prilegájuščij), примыка́ющий (ru) (primykájuščij)
• Scottish Gaelic: dlùth
• Slovak: priľahlý, vedľajší
• Spanish: adyacente (es), colindante, contiguo (es)
• Swedish: intilliggande (sv), angränsande (sv)
• Tagalog: tabi
• Vietnamese: bên cạnh (vi), liền (vi), nối (vi)
• Westrobothnian:

just before, after, or facing

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: съседен (bg) (sǎseden)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: přilehlý
• Dutch: aanpalend (nl), tegenoverstaand
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• Finnish: viereinen (fi)
• German: umliegend (de), nachfolgend (de), darauffolgend (de)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: adiacente (it)
• Norwegian: foregående, forutgående (both signifying previous), etterfølgende, følgende (no), påfølgende (no), neste (no) (all signifying next), motsatt (facing)
• Portuguese: adjacente (pt)
• Russian: сосе́дний (ru) (sosédnij), прилега́ющий (ru) (prilegájuščij)
• Slovak: susedný, vedľajší, priľahlý
• Vietnamese: liền (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} gần (vi), ^{(please verify)} liền (vi), ^{(please verify)} ngay (vi), ^{(please verify)} nối (vi)
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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. Next to; beside.

   The house adjacent to the school was demolished.

   A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.

2. (figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
   • 2008 March 27, Ingrid Lunden, “Braintree launches Extend to integrate loyalty, fraud prevention and other services into payments”, in TechCrunch‎^[2], retrieved July 26, 2019:

     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.

Usage notes

This preposition is usually used with the word to, i.e., "adjacent to". However, in the U.S., adjacent is sometimes used on its own.

References

• Bromwich, Jonah Engel (2019 July 16) “Why Is Everything ‘Adjacent’ Now?”, in The New York Times‎^[3], retrieved July 26, 2019

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.d͡ʒaˈsent]

Adjective

adjacent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adjacents)

1. adjacent (lying next to)

Further reading

• “adjacent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “adjacent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “adjacent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adjacent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dʒa.sɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

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

1. adjacent

Further reading

• “adjacent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) adjacent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjaceō

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Occitan

Etymology

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

Adjective

adjacent m (feminine singular adjacenta, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentas)

1. adjacent (lying next to)