adjacent

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The observatory also said that the storm would affect the sea off the east coast of Hainan, the Qiongzhou Strait and Beibu Gulf and other adjacent areas.

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  1. adjective Close to; lying near: adjacent cities.
  2. adjective Next to; adjoining: adjacent garden plots.

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  • Compare that to Denver, where thousands walked from the downtown to the adjacent arena, where the perimeter started at the edge of a field of parking lots. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • Both facilities are George Brown-adjacent, unlike Dallas 'significant separation between the convention center and the American Airlines Center area. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • Seriously, there are unfortunately many things that make me shake my fist in the air in aggravation --- adjacent strip malls with bad pedestrian access between them, licorice in my herbal tea, inconsiderate street parkers --- and sales tax holidays are high on that list. —  Blog updates
  • Scores of people in the adjacent areas of Mingora and Saidu Sharif also complained of symptoms of the potentially fatal disease, which is mainly transmitted through contaminated water. —  India eNews
  • The observatory also said that the storm would affect the sea off the east coast of Hainan, the Qiongzhou Strait and Beibu Gulf and other adjacent areas. —  India eNews
 

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nearby ·  central ·  outer ·  eastern ·  outlying ·  respective ·  rocky ·  circular ·  distant ·  inland
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  1. Middle English, from Latin adiacēns, adiacent-, present participle of adiacēre, to lie near : ad-, ad- + iacēre, to lie; see yē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin adjacen(t-)s, present participle of adjacere, lie near, from ad, to, + jacēre, lie: see jacent.
 

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/əˈdʒeɪsənt/
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