adjacent

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“I lie down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/

Adjective

adjacent (not comparable)

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

   Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

   Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent

2. Just before, after, or facing.

3. (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

adjacent (plural adjacents)

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

Preposition

adjacent

1. Next to; beside.

2. (figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Usage notes

This preposition is usually used with the word to, i.e., "adjacent to". However, in the U.S., adjacent is sometimes used on its own.

References

• Bromwich, Jonah Engel (2019 July 16) “Why Is Everything ‘Adjacent’ Now?”, in The New York Times‎^[4], retrieved July 26, 2019

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiacentem. Doublet of eina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [a.d͡ʒaˈsent]

Adjective

adjacent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adjacents)

1. adjacent (lying next to)

Further reading

• “adjacent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “adjacent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “adjacent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adjacent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiacentem, present active participle of adiaceō (“adjoin, border”). Doublet of aise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dʒa.sɑ̃/

Adjective

adjacent (feminine adjacente, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentes)

1. adjacent

Further reading

• “adjacent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

adjacent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjaceō

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacēntem, present active participle of adiaceō (“adjoin, border”).

Adjective

adjacent m (feminine singular adjacenta, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentas)

1. adjacent (lying next to)

Polish

Noun

adjacent m pers

1. Pre-1936 spelling of adiacent.

Declension