adjacent

1. not comparableLying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacent.

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   Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.

   Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near, conterminous · Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent

2. not comparableJust before, after, or facing.

   The picture is on the adjacent page.

3. figurativelynot comparablepostpositionalRelated to; suggestive of; bordering on.

   It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.

   2018 October 27, Alex Williams, “Why Is CBD Everywhere?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2022

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   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.

   2018 December 25, “Faith Leaders Speak about Leading Through Natural Disasters; Who's Been Naughty and Nice in 2018 Politics?”, in New Day, Chris Cillizza (actor), via CNN, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022, retrieved 27 Jul 2019

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

   2026 March 15, Naveen Kumar, “Timothée Chalamet Was Supposed to Be a New Kind of Leading Man”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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.

   Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.

   1980, Faber Birren, The textile colorist

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   Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…]

   2011, Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies, page 194

1. Next to; beside.

   The house adjacent to the school was demolished.

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   A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.

2. figurativelyRelated to; suggestive of; bordering on.

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   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.

   2008 March 27, Ingrid Lunden, “Braintree launches Extend to integrate loyalty, fraud prevention and other services into payments”, in TechCrunch, retrieved 26 Jul 2019