adjacent
pronunciation
How to pronounce adjacent in British English:
UK [əˈdʒeɪsnt]
How to pronounce adjacent in American English:
US [əˈdʒeɪsnt]
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- Adjective:
- nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
- having a common boundary or edge; touching
- near or close to but not necessarily touching
Word Origin
- adjacent
- adjacent: [15] Adjacent and adjective come from the same source, the Latin verb jacere ‘throw’. The intransitive form of this, jacēre, literally ‘be thrown down’, was used for ‘lie’. With the addition of the prefix ad-, here in the sense ‘near to’, was created adjacēre, ‘lie near’. Its present participial stem, adjacent-, passed, perhaps via French, into English.The ordinary Latin transitive verb jacere, meanwhile, was transformed into adjicere by the addition of the prefix ad-; it meant literally ‘throw to’, and hence ‘add’ or ‘attribute’, and from its past participial stem, adject-, was formed the adjective adjectīvus. This was used in the phrase nomen adjectīvus ‘attributive noun’, which was a direct translation of Greek ónoma épithetos.And when it first appeared in English (in the 14th century, via Old French adjectif) it was in noun adjective, which remained the technical term for ‘adjective’ into the 19th century. Adjective was not used as a noun in its own right until the early 16th century.=> adjective, easy, reject
- adjacent (adj.)
- early 15c., from Latin adiacentem (nominative adiacens) "lying at," present participle of adiacere "lie at, border upon, lie near," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + iacere "to lie, rest," literally "to throw" (see jet (v.)), with notion of "to cast (oneself) down."
Example
- 1. An adjacent cell for women stands empty .
- 2. Low clouds obscure an adjacent valley and glaciers to the north ( upper left ) .
- 3. Small streams ( and their adjacent floodplains ) of the araguari river extend like fingers throughout the landscape .
- 4. After 1947 the rate of immigration was bolstered by family reunification and some newcomers moved into the adjacent strathcona region .
- 5. But it still says there is nearly 38 trillion cubic metres on the peninsula and in adjacent offshore fields enough to supply europe for several decades .