adjacent
preposition
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L233675 on Wikidata ↗adjective
- next to, evokes horizontal relationship
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Italic *jakēō Latin iaceō Latin adiaceō Latin adiacēnsder. English adjacent Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).
- Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
“Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.”
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacent.”
- Just before, after, or facing.
“The picture is on the adjacent page.”
- Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
“It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.”
“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.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Italic *jakēō Latin iaceō Latin adiaceō Latin adiacēnsder. English adjacent Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).
- Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
“Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.”
“Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…]”
prep
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Italic *jakēō Latin iaceō Latin adiaceō Latin adiacēnsder. English adjacent Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).
- Next to; beside.
“The house adjacent to the school was demolished.”
“A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.”
- Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
“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.”