Definitions for adjacent
əˈdʒeɪ səntad·ja·cent

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. adjacent, next, side by side(p)(adj)

   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"

2. adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)(adj)

   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"

3. adjacent(adj)

   near or close to but not necessarily touching

   "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. adjacent(Noun)

   Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.

2. adjacent(Adjective)

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

   Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.

3. adjacent(Adjective)

   Just before, after, or facing.

   The picture is on the adjacent page.

4. adjacent(Preposition)

   Next to; adjacent to; beside.

Origin: adiacens, adiacentis.

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Adjacent(adj)

   lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway

2. Adjacent(noun)

   that which is adjacent

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Adjacent

   ad-jās′ent, adj. lying near to: contiguous.—n. Adjac′ency, the state of being near: that which is adjacent.—adv. Adjac′ently. [L. ad, to, jacēre, to lie.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. adjacent

   Lying close to another object; a word applied to the relative situations of capes or bays from the ship.--Adjacent angle is one immediately contiguous to another, so that they have one common side.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'adjacent' in Adjectives Frequency: #981

How to pronounce adjacent?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of adjacent in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of adjacent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of adjacent in a Sentence

1. Rite Aid:

   The shooting happened adjacent to the primary building.

2. Vickareio Adderely:

   My house sounds like the ocean, there are three houses adjacent to mine that also lost their roof.

3. Jonathan Forster:

   I wouldn't be surprised to see Spotify continue to invest in areas that are relevant or adjacent to our business.

4. Allan Bradley:

   The cell will try to stitch things back together, but it doesn’t really know what bits of DNA lie adjacent to each other.

5. Liz Thomas:

   Warming surface temperatures and reduced sea ice in the sea adjacent to the Antarctic Peninsula is resulting in increased moisture availability.

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