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adjacent

adj
/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Italic *jakēō Latin iaceō Latin adiaceō Latin adiacēnsder. English adjacent Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).

  1. borrowed from adiacēns

Definitions

  1. Lying next to, close, or contiguous

    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. Just before, after, or facing.

    • The picture is on the adjacent page.

  3. Related to

    Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

    • It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.
    • He’s [Timothée Chalamet is] smug and entitled. He’s dismissive of opera and ballet. He’s Kardashian-adjacent.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that…

      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[…]

    2. Next to

      Next to; beside.

      • The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
      • A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adjacent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adjacent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at adjacent

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA