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Adjacent   /ədʒˈeɪsənt/   Listen
adjective
Adjacent  adj.  Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest."
Adjacent angle or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.
Synonyms: Adjoining; contiguous; near. Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. "I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians." Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain.



noun
Adjacent  n.  That which is adjacent. (R.)






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"Adjacent" Quotes from Famous Books



... which gives passage to the preplantar artery. We may mention in passing that the lateral angles give attachment to the lateral fibro-cartilages, and that the lateral angles themselves in old horses become increased in size owing to ossification of portions of the adjacent lateral cartilages. ...
— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks

... bit of tobacco to Sir Walter, "make that point evident beyond peradventure. The Captain lost an eye-tooth in one of his later raids; it was knocked out by a marline-spike which had been hurled at him by one of the crew of the treasure-ship he and his followers had attacked. The adjacent teeth were broken, but not removed. The cigar end bears the marks of those two jagged molars, with the hiatus, which, as I have indicated, is due to the destruction of the eye-tooth between them. It is not likely that there ...
— The Pursuit of the House-Boat • John Kendrick Bangs

... standing up proudly in the boat, as the edge of the moon began to lift above the low mist that lay upon the river and adjacent meads, lighting up the King's face, animated now into stern beauty by the spirit within which spoke, "and think of it with shame. Listening to your words, I blinded myself into the belief that it was right, that it was a brave and a gallant act to wrest that Crown jewel from ...
— The King's Esquires - The Jewel of France • George Manville Fenn

... mingled light and gloom of an adjacent park, a handful of wet wanderers, in attitudes of chronic dejection, ...
— Maggie: A Girl of the Streets • Stephen Crane

... this said river of Mindanao contained. He said that a day's journey along the shore of this river by which we came is a province called Tabungao. It has about three thousand Indians, who harvest a great quantity of rice. They live inland a distance of four leagues. Farther on and adjacent to this province is another settlement, called the province of Picon. It has one thousand five hundred Indians, who are well ...
— The Philippine Islands 1493-1898, Vol. 4 of 55 - 1576-1582 • Edited by E. H. Blair and J. A. Robertson


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