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Look up: adjacent

  1. adjacent
    [adj] - nearest in space or position 2. [adj] - near or close to but not necessarily touching
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. adjacent
    adjacency
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  3. Adjacent
    Adjacent: Lying nearby. Related terms include superjacent, subjacent, and circumjacent. From ad-, near + the Latin jacere, to lie = to lie near.
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  4. Adjacent
    Definition (keystage 2) Adjacent things are next to each other.
    Found on http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.ht

  5. Adjacent
    Ad·ja'cent adjective [ Latin adjacens , -centis , present participle of adjacere to lie near; ad + jacēre to lie: confer French adjacent .] Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. 'The adjacent forest.' B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle . (Geo ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/29

  6. Adjacent
    Ad·ja'cent noun That which is adjacent. [ R.] Locke.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/29

  7. adjacent
    Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. 'The adjacent forest.' Adjacent or contiguous angle. ... Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. 'I find that all Europe with her ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. adjacent
    next adjective nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; `had adjacent rooms`; `in the next room`; `the person sitting next to me`; `our rooms were side by side`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. adjacent
    adjective near or close to but not necessarily touching; `lands adjacent to the mountains`; `New York and adjacent cities`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Adjacent
    `Adjacent` is an adjective meaning `contiguous`, `adjoining` or `abutting`. In geometry, adjacent sides of a polygon meet at a vertex and adjacent vertices of a polygon are joined by a side. In trigonometry the adjacent side of a right angled triangle is the cathetus next to the angle in question. In graph theory adjacent nodes in a graph are linked by an edge.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacent

  11. Adjacent
    • (a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. • (n.) That which is adjacent.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. adjacent
    adjacent The house adjacent to yours lies next to it.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. adjacent
    Next to. Adjacent angles are next to, and thus share, one side. Adjacent sides of a polygon share a vertex.
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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