Pronunciations (2)
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/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
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əˈdʒeɪ.sənt
Adjective
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
Usage- not-comparable
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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.
Usage- not-comparable
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The picture is on the adjacent page.
Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Usage- Figurative
- not-comparable
- postpositional
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It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.
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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.
He’s [Timothée Chalamet is] smug and entitled. He’s dismissive of opera and ballet. He’s Kardashian-adjacent.
Noun
Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
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Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.
Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…]
Preposition
Next to; beside.
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The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
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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.
Adjective
nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
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had adjacent rooms
in the next room
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the person sitting next to me
our rooms were side by side
having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
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Rhode Island has two bordering states: Massachusetts and Connecticut
the side of Germany conterminous with France
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Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho
neighboring cities
near or close to but not necessarily touching
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lands adjacent to the mountains
New York and adjacent cities