different between adjacent vs acrr

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiac?ns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceo (“I lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceo (“I lie down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??d?e?.s?nt/

Adjective

adjacent (not comparable)

1. Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

   Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

   Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent

2. Just before, after, or facing.

3. (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Derived terms

• adjacency
• adjacently
• nonadjacent

Translations

Noun

adjacent (plural adjacents)

1. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
   • 2011, Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies (page 194)

     Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse […]

Preposition

adjacent

1. Next to; beside.

2. (figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Usage notes

This preposition is usually used with the word to, i.e., "adjacent to". However, in the U.S., adjacent is sometimes used on its own.

References

• Bromwich, Jonah Engel (July 16, 2019) , “Why Is Everything ‘Adjacent’ Now?”, in The New York Times?^[3], retrieved July 26, 2019

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiac?ns, adiac?ntem, present active participle of adiace? (“adjoin, border”). Doublet of eina.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.d????sent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.d????sen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.d??a?sent/

Adjective

adjacent (masculine and feminine plural adjacents)

1. adjacent (lying next to)

Further reading

• “adjacent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “adjacent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “adjacent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adjacent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiac?ns, adiac?ntem, present active participle of adiace? (“adjoin, border”). Doublet of aise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?a.s??/

Adjective

adjacent (feminine singular adjacente, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentes)

1. adjacent

Further reading

• “adjacent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

adjacent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjace?

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiac?ns, adiac?ntem, present active participle of adiace? (“adjoin, border”),

Adjective

adjacent m (feminine singular adjacenta, masculine plural adjacents, feminine plural adjacentas)

1. adjacent (lying next to)