adjacent

adj.相邻的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
adjacent (adjective)
1.
a) not distant - nearby the city and adjacent suburbs
b) having a common or border - endpoint adjacent lots adjacent sides of a triangle
c) immediately preceding or following
2.
of two angles having the and one side in common - vertex
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
adjacent (adjective)
having a border in common
SYNONYMS:
abutting, adjoining, bordering, conterminous, contiguous, flanking, flush, fringing, joining, juxtaposed, neighboring, skirting, touching, verging
RELATED WORDS:
approximate, close, closest, immediate, near, nearby, nearest, next-door, nigh; attached, communicating, connected, connecting, interconnecting, joined, linked, united; bounding, circumjacent, embracing, encircling, enclosing ( inclosing), fencing, rimming, surrounding; marginal, peripheral, tangent, tangential; ambient, encompassing
NEAR ANTONYMS:
apart, detached, disconnected, discrete, free-standing, isolate, isolated, removed, separate, single, unattached, unconnected, unlinked; away, distant, far, faraway, far-off, farthest, remote; discontinuous, noncontinuous; broken up, disjoined, dissevered, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, parted, ramified, resolved, severed, split, sundered, uncoupled, unyoked
nonadjacent, noncontiguous
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