adjacent

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “OED says this comes from middle/old French, then from Latin”) Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“I lie down”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
• (India) IPA^(key): /əd͡ʒeːsənʈ/, (spelling pronunciation) /əd͡ʒəsənʈ/

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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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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

Borrowed from Latin adiacentem. Doublet of eina.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.d͡ʒəˈsent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.d͡ʒaˈsent]

adjacent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adjacents)

1. adjacent (lying next to)

• “adjacent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “adjacent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /a.dʒa.sɑ̃/

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

1. adjacent

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

adjacent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjaceō

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

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

1. adjacent (lying next to)

adjacent m pers

1. Pre-1936 spelling of adiacent.