Wiktionary

adjacent

English edit

WOTD – 11 February 2009

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
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Adjective edit

adjacent (not comparable)

  1. Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
    Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near
    Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent
    Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
  2. Just before, after, or facing.
    The picture is on the adjacent page.
  3. (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
    • 2018 October 27, Alex Williams, “Why Is CBD Everywhere?”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.
    • 2018 December 25, “Faith Leaders Speak about Leading Through Natural Disasters; Who's Been Naughty and Nice in 2018 Politics?”, in New Day‎[2], Chris Cillizza (actor), via CNN, retrieved July 27, 2019:
      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.

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Translations edit

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Noun edit

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.
    • 1980, Faber Birren, The textile colorist:
      Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.
    • 2011, Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies, page 194:
      Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse […]

Preposition edit

adjacent

  1. Next to; beside.
    The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
    A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
  2. (figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
    • 2008 March 27, Ingrid Lunden, “Braintree launches Extend to integrate loyalty, fraud prevention and other services into payments”, in TechCrunch‎[3], retrieved July 26, 2019:
      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.

Usage notes edit

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 edit

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

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin adiacentem. Doublet of eina.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

adjacent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adjacents)

  1. adjacent (lying next to)

Further reading edit

French edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

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

  1. adjacent

Further reading edit

Latin edit

Verb edit

adjacent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjaceō

Occitan edit

Etymology edit

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

Adjective edit

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

  1. adjacent (lying next to)

Polish edit

Noun edit

adjacent m pers

  1. Pre-1936 spelling of adiacent.

Declension edit

Declension of adjacent
singular plural
nominative adjacent adjacenci/adjacenty (deprecative)
genitive adjacenta adjacentów
dative adjacentowi adjacentom
accusative adjacenta adjacentów
instrumental adjacentem adjacentami
locative adjacencie adjacentach
vocative adjacencie adjacenci
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