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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjacent \Ad*ja"cent\, n.
That which is adjacent. [R.]
--Locke.
Adjacent \Ad*ja"cent\, a. [L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of
adjacere to lie near; ad + jac[=e]re to lie: cf. F.
adjacent.]
Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on;
as, a field adjacent to the highway. ``The adjacent forest.''
--B. Jonson.
Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.
Syn: Adjoining; contiguous; near.
Usage: Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc.
I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles
is peopled with Christians.
--Howell.
[1913 Webster] Things are adjoining when they meet at
some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms,
an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous
should touch with some extent of one side or the whole
of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood
contiguous to a plain.
Angle \An"gle\ ([a^][ng]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor.]
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The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
Into the utmost angle of the world.
--Spenser.To search the tenderest angles of the heart.
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(Geom.)
The figure made by. two lines which meet.
The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
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A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
Though but an angle reached him of the stone.
--Dryden. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological ``houses.'' [Obs.]
--Chaucer.-
[AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. --Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope. Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90[deg]. Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. Alternate angles. See Alternate. Angle bar.
(Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet.
--Knight.-
(Mach.) Same as Angle iron.
Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall.
Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together.
--Knight.Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted.
Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle.
Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata.
Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both.
Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines.
External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened.
Facial angle. See under Facial.
Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure.
Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line.
Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle.
Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90[deg].
Optic angle. See under Optic.
Rectilineal or Right-lined angle, one formed by two right lines.
Right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a quarter circle).
Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point.
Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere.
Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye.
For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence, reflection, refraction, position, repose, fraction, see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection, Refraction, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on. 2 Just before, after, or facing. n. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite. prep. (context US English) next to; adjacent to; beside.
WordNet
adj. nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side" [syn: next, side by side(p)]
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" [syn: abutting, adjoining, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)]
near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"
Wikipedia
Adjacent or adjacency may refer to:
- Adjacent (graph theory), two vertices that are the endpoints of an edge in a graph
- Adjacent (music), a conjunct step to a note which is next in the scale
Usage examples of "adjacent".
The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or, in some places near the capital, with granite.
Roman people, three cohorts only were stationed in the capital, whilst the remainder was dispersed in the adjacent towns of Italy.
The tyranny of Tiberius, Nero, and Domitian, who resided almost constantly at Rome, or in the adjacent was confined to the senatorial and equestrian orders.
The booty that fell into the hands of the Goths was immense: the wealth of the adjacent countries had been deposited in Trebizond, as in a secure place of refuge.
The fertility of the soil soon attracted a new colony from the adjacent provinces of Gaul.
Ever since the rash but successful enterprise of the Franks under the reign of Probus, their daring countrymen had constructed squadrons of light brigantines, in which they incessantly ravaged the provinces adjacent to the ocean.
Carausius still preserved the possession of Boulogne and the adjacent country.
A hundred and thirty of these were furnished by Egypt and the adjacent coast of Africa.
They still preserved their former habitation of Pella, spread themselves into the villages adjacent to Damascus, and formed an inconsiderable church in the city of Beroea, or, as it is now called, of Aleppo, in Syria.
It is impossible to justify the vain and credulous exaggerations of modern travellers, who have sometimes stretched the limits of Constantinople over the adjacent villages of the European, and even of the Asiatic coast.
His formidable host, when it was drawn out in order of battle, covered the banks of the river, the adjacent heights, and the whole extent of a plain of above twelve miles, which separated the two armies.
At the stated season of the melting of the snows in Armenia, the River Mygdonius, which divides the plain and the city of Nisibis, forms, like the Nile, an inundation over the adjacent country.
By his secrecy and diligence he entertained some hopes of surprising the person of Constans, who was pursuing in the adjacent forest his favorite amusement of hunting, or perhaps some pleasures of a more private and criminal nature.
The city of Mursa, or Essek, celebrated in modern times for a bridge of boats, five miles in length, over the River Drave, and the adjacent morasses, has been always considered as a place of importance in the wars of Hungary.
The impunity of rapine had increased the boldness and numbers of the wild Isaurians: those robbers descended from their craggy mountains to ravage the adjacent country, and had even presumed, though without success, to besiege the important city of Seleucia, which was defended by a garrison of three Roman legions.