# adjacent

Pronunciation: say "uh-JAY-suhnt" /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/

## Adjective

1. Lying next to or close to something else; neighboring or sharing a border with it.
   - Simple: Next to or very close to something else.
   - _Fire crews evacuated the adjacent buildings as a precaution._
   - _The farm lies adjacent to a protected wetland._
3. Coming immediately before or after something in a sequence, or directly facing it.
   - Simple: Coming just before or after something, or facing it.
   - _The translation appears on the adjacent page, facing the original text._
   - _Each track on the record fades into the adjacent one without a pause._
4. Related to, suggestive of, or bordering on something else, while remaining distinct from it.
   - Simple: Close to something in ideas, style, or feeling, but not exactly the same.
   - _Her stand-up act is theater-adjacent, blending monologue with full staging._
   - _The committee also discussed adjacent issues, such as housing and transit._

## Preposition

2. Next to or beside something, used either followed by to or placed directly before the noun naming the place.
   - Simple: Next to or right beside something or someone.
   - _The city plans to build a small park on the vacant lot adjacent to the courthouse._
   - _Investigators searched the field adjacent the highway for evidence._
5. Related to, suggestive of, or bordering on something in kind or character rather than in physical position.
   - Simple: Linked to something, a bit like it, or close to being it, but not in place or space.
   - _The essay's tone drifts adjacent satire without ever committing to the joke._
   - _Their startup operates in a space adjacent fintech, handling payroll data for small firms._

## Noun

6. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the side opposite the angle being considered.
   - Simple: Something next to another thing, like the side of a triangle next to the angle you use.
   - _To find the cosine, divide the adjacent by the hypotenuse._
   - _The surveyor treated the base of the slope as the adjacent in her calculation._

## Origin

Borrowed from the Latin adiacēns (from adiaceō, "I lie beside"), which is formed from ad ("to") plus iaceō ("I lie down").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/adjacent (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).