# adjacent
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* (South Asia) IPA: /ˈad͡ʒːəˌsenʈ/

### Adjective

adjacent (not comparable)
* 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.
* Just before, after, or facing.
    The picture is on the adjacent page.
* (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
** 2018 October 27, Alex Williams, “Why Is CBD Everywhere?”, in The New York Times‎, →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, 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.

#### Derived terms

* adjacency
* adjacent angle
* adjacently
* adjacentness
* circumadjacent
* coadjacent
* nonadjacent
* subadjacent
* unadjacent

#### Translations

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### Noun

adjacent (plural adjacents)
* 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

adjacent
* Next to; beside.
    The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
    A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
* (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, 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

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, retrieved July 26, 2019

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiacentem. Doublet of eina.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsent]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.d͡ʒaˈsent]

### Adjective

adjacent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adjacents)
* 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, 2025
* “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: /a.dʒa.sɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

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

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Verb

adjacent
* 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)
* adjacent (lying next to)

## Polish
### Noun

adjacent m pers
* Pre-1936 spelling of adiacent.