adjacent
ad.ja.cent \*-'ja-s-*nt\ aj [ME, fr. MF or L; fr. L adjacent-, adjacens,
prp. of adjace-r]e to lie near, fr. ad- + jace-re to lie; akin to L jacere
to throw - more at JET 1a: not distant : NEARBY 1b: having a common border
: ABUTTING 1c: immediately preceding or following of two angles 2:
having a common vertex and side an being in close proximity. ADJACENT may
or may not imply contact but always implies absence of anything of the same
kind in between; ADJOINING definitely implies meeting and touching at some
point or line; CONTIGUOUS implies having contact on all or most of one
side; ABUTTING suggests having a contact with something else at a boundary
or dividing line - ad.ja.cent.ly av SYN syn ADJACENT, ADJOINING,
CONTIGUOUS, ABUTTING me