Usually means: Next to or adjoining something.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word adjacent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. adjacent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adjacent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adjacent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adjacent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adjacent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adjacent, adjacent: Wordnik
  7. adjacent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adjacent: Wiktionary
  9. adjacent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adjacent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adjacent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adjacent, adjacent: Dictionary.com
  13. adjacent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adjacent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Adjacent (graph theory), Adjacent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adjacent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adjacent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. adjacent: Rhymezone
  19. adjacent, adjacent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adjacent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. adjacent: Free Dictionary
  22. adjacent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. adjacent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. adjacent: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. adjacent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. adjacent: Legal dictionary
  4. adjacent: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. adjacent: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. adjacent: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. adjacent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adjacent: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Adjacent: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. adjacent, adjacent, adjacent: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. adjacent: Graph Theory

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adjacent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See adjacently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
adjective:  Just before, after, or facing.
adjective:  (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
noun:  Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.

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