Conterminous vs Adjacent - What's the difference?
conterminous | adjacent |
Meeting end-to-end or at the ends.
(geography) Having matching boundaries; or, adjoining and sharing a boundary.
Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
(legal) Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.
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)
As adjectives the difference between conterminous and adjacent
is that conterminous is meeting end-to-end or at the ends while adjacent is lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.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
(us) next to; adjacent to; beside.conterminous
English
Alternative forms
* coterminousAdjective
(-)- New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are conterminous .
- To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "conterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.
See also
* coextensive * contiguousadjacent
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