adjacentとは

語源

Borrowing 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): /əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/

形容詞

adjacent (not comparable)

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

   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.

同意語

• (lying next to): abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

反意語

• (lying next to): apart, distant, nonadjacent

関連する語

• adjace
• adjacency
• adjacently

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. (US) Next to; adjacent to; beside.

Latin

動詞

adjacent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjaceō