Dictionary Definition
adjacent adj
1 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" [syn: next,
side by
side(p)]
2 having a common boundary or edge; touching;
"abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "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" [syn: abutting, adjoining, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)]
3 near or close to but not necessarily touching;
"lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent
cities"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /əˈdʒeɪsənt/, /@"dZeIs@nt/
Adjective
- Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent the highway.
- Just before, after, or facing.
- The picture is on the adjacent page.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring
just before, after, or facing
- ttbc Bulgarian: близък, съседен, близкостоящ, непосредствено предшествуващ
- ttbc Dutch: aanpalend, er naast liggend
- ttbc Italian: adiacente
- ttbc Spanish: colindante, contiguo, adyacente
- ttbc Vietnamese: gần, liền, ngay, nối
Extensive Definition
Adjacent is an adjective meaning contiguous,
adjoining or abutting. Adjacent can also be a fanomuinal hockey
play.
In geometry, adjacent is when
sides meet to make a angle.
In trigonometry the adjacent
side of a right angled triangle is the cathetus next to the angle in
question.
In graph theory
adjacent nodes in a graph are linked by an edge.
adjacent in Spanish: Adyacente
In a geometrical use, adjacent is a term
mathematically used to state that two cathetus(better known as
legs)are connected to the right angle.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abutting, adjoining, attached, bordering, close-by, closest, connected, connecting, consecutive, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end,
endways, endwise, face to face, handy, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional,
juxtapositive,
linked, nearby, nearest, neighbor, neighboring, next, successive, touching