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adjacent Adjective

— If mathx/math has adjacent mathy/math, there is no other thing between mathx/math and mathy/math. The house has an adjacent garage. It's a lovely room, complete with adjacent shower and rest area. In the word "house", the letters "h" and "o" are adjacent.

adjacent Preposition

— If mathx/math is adjacent to mathy/math, there is no other thing between mathx/math and mathy/math. The cinema was immediately adjacent to our house, so that every night we could hear the film.

adjacent

— adjective (= next, side by side) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space had adjacent rooms in the next room the person sitting next to me our rooms were side by side — adjective (= conterminous, contiguous, neighboring) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut the side of Germany conterminous with France Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho neighboring cities — adjective near or close to but not necessarily touching lands adjacent to the mountains New York and adjacent cities

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near neighbouring neighboring contiguous nearby close adjoining next next to proximate adjoin vicinal surrounding near-by conterminous bordering side by side related proximal neighbor handy by boundary line beside approximate adjacency abutting very near touching together proximity propinquity parallel with nigh neighbourly neighbour neighborly neighborhood near by local juxtaposed intimate interfacing imminent familiar environing enclosed en suite contiguity connected

Topics adjacent topics

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States Location Here, there Touching, contact

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the next adjacent adjoining bordering neighboring

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Simple sentences

France is adjacent to Spain.

The stadium is adjacent to the school.

My hometown is adjacent to the ocean.

Movie subtitles

Using one last time the suit of Judge Pradier, Fantomas called the Chief of Gendarmes of the prison adjacent to the Palace.

The rooms immediately adjacent to the good bathroom will be occupied by the German High Command.

Sovereign of all tributary countries adjacent and in every direction et cetera, et cetera, et cetera..

Colonel Homer Reed in command of a troop of cavalry whose assignment was to hold the lonely outpost at any cost and to protect the settlers in the adjacent area.

And, uh, the location is not Golden Gate Park, unfortunately, but it's somewhere adjacent to it which is a bit larger.

Seal off control centre and adjacent areas.

Presumably, they would be adjacent to the computer centre that operates the planetary effects.

You can have two adjacent time continuums running at different rates.

The distance between adjacent waves is called the wavelength.

We've just had a report in that Tuttle has wrecked an entire flat. and sabotaged adjacent Central Services.

A great deal of my journalistic work is done at night in my den, in that room adjacent to this one.

It appears to be coming from an adjacent sector.

He occupies the cell adjacent to the defendant at Sing Sing Prison.

Unspecified animal bite adjacent bullet wound on upper left shoulder.

Two, we transport them over the roof to the adjacent box factory.

This suite is adjacent to the rooms occupied by Mrs. Menil.

His room was adjacent to yours, separated by a sitting room.

Street by street and house by house, including the adjacent farmlands.

He's being held for interrogation on the top floor of this building, Seravno Prison, which is located immediately adjacent to the city's main park.

This is Anton Cardinal Vossek who is being held for interrogation on the top floor of this building, Seravno Prison, which is located immediately adjacent to the city main park.

You know the 18-story building adjacent to the subject structure?

The man in the adjacent room had been accused by the Pope's guards of having let a woman in, dressed as a man.

Adjacent to the alarm is the digital iambic generator.

Why do you go to the adjacent sector?

All civilian residents are to be evacuated from areas adjacent to U.S. consulate.

We just had a report in that Tuttle has wrecked an entire flat and sabotaged adjacent Central Services.

Sovereign of all interior tributary countries adjacent and around in every direction, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Therefore the accused declaration as for why the raincoat was splattered in another adjacent Zone to the industrial park it is quite feasible as the court will verify with this chemical analysis I've presented.

From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs.

But the gates of heaven and hell are adjacent and unmarked.

It is an immense swirling column of gas reaching high above adjacent clouds.

But we got a report on movement on board. Eddie and Hung, go on board to have a look. First, second teams search the adjacent islands.

I'll go to the adjacent island to have a look.

All adjacent and to attention, sir!

Adjacent to refuse is refuse.

News and current affairs

We also bear the responsibilities involved in laying off Chernobyl's workers and depriving the adjacent city of Slavutych (population 28,000), of its main source of income.

Pollution by nutrients and toxins from adjacent land areas further vitiate coral populations' ability to recover, giving seaweed an even greater competitive edge.

This means that Israel would be able to annex some settlements adjacent to its border, while giving up only a small share of its land - an exchange to which it should be open when serious negotiations are underway.

Similarly, on a hot day, the air in a forest is cooler than over adjacent bare lands, thanks to evaporation and transpiration in the trees.

Indeed, the country could develop into a mini-China, placing massive manufacturing capacity immediately adjacent to the global economy's largest integrated market.

This is a vital condition for keeping the region Russian, and special EU transit visas should therefore be granted to Kaliningrad's residents in order to ensure simplified travel through adjacent EU countries.

The EU's future enlargement to adjacent territories - the essence of its foreign policy in the last 15 years - will become less and less likely.

While Russia is not as politically or economically appealing as the EU, it can fall back on reliance on its natural resources to achieve its political objectives in adjacent territories.

Second, parts of global supply chains that were not competitive are no longer protected by being adjacent to parts that were.

Nor are the Self-Defense Forces' operations and obligations any longer restricted to Japanese territory and the adjacent seas.

Against this background, it is perhaps unsurprising that Hamas managed to compel most Israelis living in areas adjacent to Gaza to flee, with many Israelis accusing their government of failing to protect its citizens adequately.

But there were also lingering conflicts in Croatia, notably in the Eastern Slavonia region, adjacent to Serbia.

Chemical synaptic transmission involves the release of specific molecules, neurotransmitters, which diffuse through the intercellular space and interact with specific receptors located on an adjacent neuron.

It makes digital space sound like airspace or territorial seas, something that is somehow derived from or adjacent to physical territory.

For example, chemical pesticide or pollen from genetically engineered plants wafting from an adjacent field onto an organic crop does not affect the harvest's status.

World oil prices are de facto determined on the Arabian Peninsula and by the countries of the adjacent Gulf region, and this will not change anytime soon.

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