adjacent
/əˈdʒeɪsənt/
adjective
- Next to or very near something; having a common border or touching.
- The two adjacent rooms share a wall.
- We bought a house adjacent to the school for our children.
- The library is adjacent to the park, so you can walk from one to the other.
- In geometry, describing angles that share a common side and vertex.
- The teacher drew two adjacent angles on the board to explain the concept.
- In a square, adjacent angles are always 90 degrees.
- Adjacent sides of a rectangle meet at a right angle.
- Closely related or connected in time, order, or meaning.
- The events happened in adjacent years, so many people remember them.
- Her comments were adjacent to the main point but not exactly on topic.
- The two topics are adjacent in the textbook, so we will study them together.
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