adjacent

Adjektiv

1. 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.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacent.

2. 2

   Just before, after, or facing.

   The picture is on the adjacent page.

3. 3

   übertragenRelated 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.

   He’s [Timothée Chalamet is] smug and entitled. He’s dismissive of opera and ballet. He’s Kardashian-adjacent.

Substantiv

1. 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[…]

Präposition

1. 1

   Next to; beside.

   The house adjacent to the school was demolished.

   A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.

2. 2

   übertragenRelated 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.

Formen

Plural

adjacents