Adjacent vs Successive - What's the difference?
adjacent | successive |
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
Just before, after, or facing.
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
* 2011 , Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies (page 194)
Coming one after the other in a series.
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Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
As adjectives the difference between adjacent and successive
is that adjacent is lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on while successive is coming one after the other in a series.As a noun adjacent
is something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.As a preposition adjacent
is next to; adjacent to; beside.adjacent
English
Adjective
(-)- Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
- The picture is on the adjacent page .
Synonyms
* (lying next to) abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, nearAntonyms
* (lying next to) apart, distant, nonadjacentNoun
(en noun)- Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents .
- Picking out the opposite, the adjacent , and the hypotenuse
successive
English
Adjective
(-)- They had won the title for five successive years.
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- a successive''' title; a '''successive empire
