adjacentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/

形容詞

adjacent (not comparable)

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

   Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

   Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent

   Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.

2. Just before, after, or facing.

   The picture is on the adjacent page.

3. (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
   • 2018 October 27, Alex Williams, “Why Is CBD Everywhere?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.

   • 2018 December 25, “Faith Leaders Speak about Leading Through Natural Disasters; Who's Been Naughty and Nice in 2018 Politics?”, in New Day‎^[2], CNN, retrieved July 27, 2019:

     First of all, she's probably the most popular politics-adjacent figure in the country. She's not a politician. She's never run for anything, but I have said for a long time – I think we all agree – if she did ever want to run for something, she would be right at the front of the line.

派生語

名詞

adjacent (複数形 adjacents)

1. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
   • 1980, Faber Birren, The textile colorist:

     Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.

   • 2011, Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies (page 194)

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

前置詞

adjacent

1. Next to; beside.

   The house adjacent to the school was demolished.

   A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.

2. (figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
   • 2008 March 27, Lunden, Ingrid, “Braintree launches Extend to integrate loyalty, fraud prevention and other services into payments”, in TechCrunch‎^[3], retrieved July 26, 2019:

     While Amazon has increasingly become a one-stop shop for some people, we’re also seeing a large proliferation of online companies looking to connect with users wherever they happen to be spending the most time, whether that’s on a social media platform, or on a site that caters to interests adjacent to the businesses’s own — and most importantly not necessarily on the company’s own web properties.

使用する際の注意点

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.

参照

• Bromwich, Jonah Engel (July 16, 2019), “Why Is Everything ‘Adjacent’ Now?”, in The New York Times‎^[4], retrieved July 26, 2019

Latin

動詞

adjacent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjaceō