adjacent

ad·ja·cent

A0088600 (ə-jā′sənt)adj.1. Close to; lying near: adjacent cities.2. Next to; adjoining: adjacent garden plots.

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[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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ad·ja′cent·ly adv.

adjacent

(əˈdʒeɪsənt) adj1. being near or close, esp having a common boundary; adjoining; contiguous2. (Mathematics) maths a. (of a pair of vertices in a graph) joined by a common edgeb. (of a pair of edges in a graph) meeting at a common vertexn (Mathematics) geometry the side lying between a specified angle and a right angle in a right-angled triangle[C15: from Latin adjacēre to lie next to, from ad- near + jacēre to lie] adˈjacency n adˈjacently adv

ad•ja•cent

(əˈdʒeɪ sənt)

adj. 1. lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining. 2. just before, after, or facing: an adjacent page. [1400–50; < Latin adjacent-, s. of adjacēns, present participle of adjacēre to adjoin =ad- ad- + jacēre to lie] ad•ja′cent•ly, adv. syn: See adjoining.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	adjacent - nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side"side by side, nextclose - at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other; "close to noon"; "how close are we to town?"; "a close formation of ships"
	2.	adjacent - having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities"neighboring, conterminous, contiguousconnected - joined or linked together
	3.	adjacent - near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"near, nigh, close - not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she was close to tears"; "had a close call"

adjacent

adjective1. adjoining, neighbouring, nearby, abutting The fire quickly spread to adjacent shops.
adjoining separated, remote, distant, far awaypreposition1. (with to) next to, touching, close to, neighbouring, beside, near to, adjoining, bordering on, next door to, abutting, cheek by jowl with, alongside of, contiguous to, within sniffing distance of (informal), proximate to offices adjacent to the museum

adjacent

adjective1. Not far from another in space, time, or relation:close, contiguous, immediate, near, nearby, nigh, proximate.Idioms: at hand, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, within hailing distance.2. Sharing a common boundary:adjoining, conterminous, contiguous, next.

Translations

邻近的

adjacent

(əˈdʒeisənt) adjective (often with to) lying next (to). We had adjacent rooms in the hotel; They have bought the house adjacent to mine. 毗鄰的 邻近的

adjacent

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