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ad·ja·cent
(ə-jā′sənt)adj.
1. Close to; lying near: adjacent cities.
2. Next to; adjoining: adjacent garden plots.
[Middle English, from Latin adiacēns, adiacent-, present participle of adiacēre, to lie near : ad-, ad- + iacēre, to lie; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]
ad·ja′cent·ly adv.
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adjacent
(əˈdʒeɪsənt)adj
1. being near or close, esp having a common boundary; adjoining; contiguous
2. (Mathematics) maths
a. (of a pair of vertices in a graph) joined by a common edge
b. (of a pair of edges in a graph) meeting at a common vertex
n
(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
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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.
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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" close - 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" connected - joined or linked together | |
3. | adjacent - near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities" |
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adjacent
adjective
preposition
1. (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
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adjacent
adjective1. Not far from another in space, time, or relation:
2. Sharing a common boundary:
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Translations
مُجاوِرمُجَاوِر، مُتَاخِم، قَرِيب مِن
přilehlýsousední
tilstødende
viereinen
susjedan
szomszédos
aîliggjandi
近接した
인접한
gretimas
blakus
aangrenzendaanpalender naast liggendtegenoverstaand
susedný
närliggande
ติดกัน
liền kề
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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adjacent
adj → angrenzend; to be adjacent to something → an etw (acc) → angrenzen, neben etw (dat) → liegen; the adjacent room → das Nebenzimmer, das Zimmer nebenan
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adjacent
(əˈdʒeisənt) adjective (often with to) lying next (to). We had adjacent rooms in the hotel; They have bought the house adjacent to mine.
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adjacent
→ مُجاوِر přilehlý tilstødende angrenzend διπλανός adyacente viereinen adjacent susjedan adiacente 近接した 인접한 aangrenzend tilstøtende sąsiadujący adjacente смежный närliggande ติดกัน bitişik liền kề 邻近的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
adjacent
a. adyacente, contiguo, al lado de.
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