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UK
/ɐdʒˈeɪsənt/
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[ US /əˈdʒeɪsənt/ ]
[ US /əˈdʒeɪsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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near or close to but not necessarily touching
lands adjacent to the mountains
New York and adjacent cities -
nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
the person sitting next to me
in the next room
had adjacent rooms
our rooms were side by side -
having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Connecticut
neighboring cities
Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho
the side of Germany conterminous with France
How To Use adjacent In A Sentence
- Adjacent to the restaurant is a bar, which is well stocked with an assortment of alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic drinks.
- Investigations indicated the fire started from a temporary storehouse at the building's rear adjacent to a boiler room.
- I swallowed my tears and washed my face in the small sink in the adjacent lavatory.
- There is minimal hemorrhage, necrosis or invasion of adjacent renal parenchyma ( Urology 1997 ; 50:679 ).
- Would it not be logical for him to enable these schools to share their facilities with pupils in adjacent areas? Times, Sunday Times
- Acute cholecystitis may cause the gall bladder to adhere to the adjacent jejunum or duodenum.
- I said to them that in their deliberations they should consider the ten pensioners' flats adjacent.
- We had one last taste of bauera as we crossed a gully to the adjacent ridge which saw us safely down.
- The fused parietals form the posterior two-thirds of the sagittal crest, expanding posteriorly to form a flattened, sculpted deck behind the supratemporal fenestrae adjacent to the squamosals.
- Although Mitchell grasses (Astrebla spp.) may be common along drainage lines in adjacent lowland ecoregions (Gulf Plains and Channel Country), it is only in the downs that Mitchell grasses dominate regional vegetation. Mitchell grass downs
