Adjoining vs Adjacent - What's the difference?
adjoining | adjacent | Synonyms |
Being in contact at some point or line; joining to; contiguous; bordering: an adjoining room .
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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.
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Adjacent is a synonym of adjoining.
As adjectives the difference between adjoining and adjacent
is that adjoining is being in contact at some point or line; joining to; contiguous; bordering: an adjoining room while adjacent is lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.As a verb adjoining
is present participle of lang=en.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.adjoining
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* adjacent * borderingAntonyms
* separatedVerb
(head)adjacent
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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