noun
definition
Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
adjective
definition
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
example
Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
synonyms
definition
Just before, after, or facing.
example
The picture is on the adjacent page.
definition
Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
preposition
definition
Next to; beside.
example
A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
definition
Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Examples of adjacent in a Sentence
A bird hide is situated adjacent to the lake.
We moved to adjacent land with a higher elevation in case there was a tsunami after the earthquake.
He encouraged adjacent landowners to install some signs.
The horses were moved to the adjacent paddock.
She started towards the forest hedging the road adjacent to the condo community.
When there is an option between a tree and an adjacent house, the latter is doubtless the safer choice.
The land is conveniently located adjacent to the main stable block.
A long time passed until both heard the muffled but distinct sound of Martha's quiet sobbing in her adjacent room.
Our teenagers are staying in the hotel room adjacent to ours.
The rules then are sine of the middle part = product of tangents of adjacent parts = product of cosines of opposite parts.
You have access to the adjacent farmland; so, use the meadow for feeding.
Several large quarries also are adjacent to the city.
Selecting any part and calling it the middle part, the two parts next it are called the adjacent parts and the remaining two parts the opposite parts.
The eastern headwaters of the Senegal thus drain a large area adjacent to the upper Niger.
Moreover, Norway has a vested interest in helping to reduce the extensive environmental problems affecting the geographically adjacent area of Northwest Russia.
We did not see this object join the original and appeared to be sitting adjacent.
The noble buildings, contrasting strangely with the wharves adjacent and opposite to it, make a striking picture, standing on the low river-bank with a background formed by the wooded elevation of Greenwich Park.
There was not enough room in the main kennel for the new puppies, so Harold added an adjacent one for the new arrivals.
The surgeon's office building was adjacent to the hospital building, so it was easy for him to visit his recovering patients.
The olives and white wine of Aguilar are celebrated in Spain, although the wine, which somewhat resembles sherry, is known as Montilla, from the adjacent town of that name.
If this division occurs by means of a localized secondary meristem connecting the cambial layers of adjacent bundles, an inlerfascicular is formed in addition to the fascicular cambium.
For good measure I had also built a Turkish bath adjacent to the kitchen.
It lies adjacent to the main Roman road running from York to Tadcaster.
The big bedroom has an adjacent full bathroom while the second twin bedroom has a shower room.
The second is that Shakespeare captures entirely different moods from hilarious good humor to deep depression and remorse closely adjacent to one another.
Isles adjacent to Nippon.
In the next week, a proposed skate park adjacent to the leisure center could be given the go-ahead by the council.
The Liberian frontier with the adjacent French possessions was defined by the Franco-Liberian treaty of 1892, but as the definition therein given was found to be very difficult of reconciliation with geographical features (for in 1892 the whole of the Liberian interior was unmapped) further negotiations were set on foot.
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Adjacent to Grimsby on the east is the coastal watering-place of Cleethorpes.
In 1903 the adjacent municipality of Mapandan (pop. in 1903, 4198) was annexed to Magaldán.
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Manameh is adjacent to the most northern point of the island, and looks across the narrow strait to Moharek.
This elevated plateau extends from Dry's Bluff in the north to the Denison Range in the south-west, and although often receding at points adjacent to the sources of the principal rivers, invariably presents a bold crested front to the north, west and east.
Part of the stele of the stem in transverse section, showing a primary xylem-strand and adjacent tissues.
Here the Tien Wang established his court, and while spending his own time in heavenly contemplation and earthly pleasures, sent the assistant Wangs on warlike expeditions through the adjacent provinces.
The New Village sign was erected adjacent to Fords Green on Sunday June 24, at a ceremony around midday.
Both companies operate considerable tank storage facilities which are fully integrated with the adjacent petrochemical complexes at Billingham and Wilton.
Myelin also contains about 20% of proteins whose prime role is to mediate adhesion between adjacent Schwann cells.
The resort has an adjacent lodge with all of the same amenities, but set away from the hustle and bustle of the hotel.
It has been suggested that the power of stridulation would be advantageous to wood-boring grubs, the sound warning each of the position of its neighbour, so that adjacent burrowers may not get in each other's way.
Palestinian states on the other, and that they could scarcely have escaped the all-pervading Babylonian influences of 2000-1400 B.C. It is now becoming clearer every day, especially since the discovery of the laws of Khammurabi, that, if we are to think sanely about Hebrew history before as well as after the exile, we can only think of Israel as part of the great complex of Semitic and especially Canaanite humanity that lived its life in western Asia between 2060 and 600 B.C.; and that while the Hebrew race maintained by the aid of prophetism its own individual and exalted place, it was not less susceptible then, than it has been since, to the moulding influences of great adjacent civilizations and ideas.
From them it was purchased by the English in 1690, the purchase including not only the fort but the adjacent towns and villages "within ye randome shott of a piece of ordnance."
The survey for the Truckee-Carson system was begun in 1902, with the object of utilizing the waters flowing to waste in western Nevada for the irrigation and reclamation of the adjacent arid regions in Churchill, Lyon and Storey counties.
The baptistery adjacent to the cathedral was, according to Ricci, originally part of the Roman baths, converted to a Christian baptistery by the Archbishop Neon (449-452), though according to other authorities it is a Christian building dating from before A.D.
Among the more interesting relics found were ivory figures of Egyptian or strongly Egyptianizing fabric. On an adjacent hill were the remains of what seems to have been in later times a temple of the Dictaean Zeus, and from the occurrence of rich deposits of Minoan vases and sacrificial remains at a lower level, the religious tradition represented by the later temple seems to go back to prehistoric times.