adjacent

UK /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/ US /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
adj 3prep 2noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

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

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

Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.

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.

noun

1

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

Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.

Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…]

prep

1

Next to; beside.

The house adjacent to the school was demolished.

A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.

2

Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

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.

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