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Definition of adjacent : 1. having a common boundary or edge; touching; " abutting lots"; " adjoining rooms"; " 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"
2. Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
3. That which is adjacent.

Synonyms:

abutting, coterminous, contiguous, bordering, next, neighboring, facing, side by side, nigh, adjoining, alongside, tangent, beside, conterminous, close by

annexed, coupled, juxtaposed, affiliated, connected, wed, merged, affixed, adhered, joined, synergistic, allied, attached, abutted, amalgamated, related, married, spliced, consolidated, bonded

immediate, by, nearby, local, near, neighborhood, close, hairbreadth, proximate

Usage examples:

• Let these rods have adjacent ends separated by a very small air space, and let one rod be charged with positive and the other with negative electricity. - "Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy", John Ambrose Fleming.
• Larry Masters had gone away to some adjacent town and had left his house tight locked. - "The Tempering", Charles Neville Buck.
• In those days the public schools provided nothing in the way of training in the practical arts, and a large work along these lines was carried on among the boys and girls who lived in the districts adjacent to Christ Church. - "Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati", Warren C. Herrick.