adjacent
adjacent Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Next to or adjoining something else; situated in close proximity or sharing a border.
"The conference will be held in the banquet hall and the two adjacent meeting rooms."
In geometry, having a common vertex and a common side (of angles), or sharing a common endpoint (of sides of a polygon).
"To find the cosine of the angle, divide the length of the adjacent side by the length of the hypotenuse."
Word Nuance & Usage
'Adjacent' means lying near or next to something, which may or may not involve actual physical contact, whereas 'adjoining' and 'contiguous' strictly imply touching or sharing a common border. When used with a complement, it is almost always followed by the preposition 'to'.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late Middle English period from Latin 'adiacentem', the present participle of 'adiacere' ('to lie near or border upon'), formed from 'ad-' ('to, near') and 'iacere' ('to lie, rest').