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Meaning of adjacent

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  adjacent
      adj 1: 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: {adjacent}, {next}, {side by
             side(p)}]
      2: having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; "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: {adjacent}, {conterminous},
         {contiguous}, {neighboring(a)}]
      3: near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands
         adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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