Adherent vs Adjacent - What's the difference?
adherent | adjacent |
Adhesive, sticking to something.
Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
(botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
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 adherent and adjacent
is that adherent is adhesive, sticking to something while adjacent is lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.As nouns the difference between adherent and adjacent
is that adherent is a person who has membership in some group, association or religion while 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.adherent
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Alexander Pope)
Anagrams
* ----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