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Definition of Adjacent

Adjacent
Adjacent Ad*ja"cent, a. [L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jac[=e]re to lie: cf. F. adjacent.] Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. ``The adjacent forest.' --B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle. Syn: Adjoining; contiguous; near. Usage: Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians. --Howell. Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain.
Adjacent
Adjacent Ad*ja"cent, a. [L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jac[=e]re to lie: cf. F. adjacent.] Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. ``The adjacent forest.' --B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle. Syn: Adjoining; contiguous; near. Usage: Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians. --Howell. Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain.
Adjacent
Adjacent Ad*ja"cent, n. That which is adjacent. [R.] --Locke.

Meaning of Adjacent from wikipedia

- Look up adjacency or adjacent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adjacent or adjacency may refer to: Adjacent (graph theory) in a graph, two vertices...
- an adjacency matrix is a square matrix used to represent a finite graph. The elements of the matrix indicate whether pairs of vertices are adjacent or...
- In linguistics, an adjacency pair is an example of conversational turn-taking. An adjacency pair is composed of two utterances by two speakers, one after...
- science, an adjacency list is a collection of unordered lists used to represent a finite graph. Each unordered list within an adjacency list describes...
- Adjacent-channel interference (ACI) is interference caused by extraneous power from a signal in an adjacent channel. ACI may be caused by inadequate filtering...
- adjacent channel is an AM, FM, or TV channel that is next to another channel. First-adjacent is immediately next to another channel, second-adjacent is...
- the ratio of the adjacent leg (the side of the triangle joining the angle to the right angle) to the hypotenuse. cos ⁡ A = adjacent hypotenuse = b h ...
- Jewish adjacent is a term referring to people who are non-Jewish yet maintain a connection to Judaism or Jewish cultural life. People who are "Jewish adjacent"...
- In music, a step, or conjunct motion, is the difference in pitch between two consecutive notes of a musical scale. In other words, it is the interval between...
- A protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) is a 2–6-base pair DNA sequence immediately following the DNA sequence targeted by the Cas9 nuclease in the CRISPR bacterial...